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CHAPTER XLIII. THE LATTER END OF ALL THE KIN OF THE GIUKINGS.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]


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[Song.]

Off were the head
If Erp were alive yet,
Our brother the bold,
Whom we slew by the way,
The well-famed in warfare.
NOW MAY ALL EARLS
BE BETTERED IN MIND,
MAY THE GRIEF OF ALL MAIDENS
EVER BE MINISHED,
FOR THIS TALE OF TROUBLE
SO TOLD TO ITS ENDING.