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 | CHAPTER XVII. THE PARTING OF VIGLUND
AND KETILRID.
The Collected Works of William Morris |  |
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CHAPTER XVII. THE PARTING OF VIGLUND AND KETILRID.
Songs extracted from the prose narrative.
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[“Maiden, my songs remember]
[Viglund.]
“Maiden, my songs remember,
Fair mouth, if thou mayst learn them;
For, clasp-mead, they may gain thee
At whiles some times beguiling.
Most precious, when thou wendest
Abroad, where folk are gathered,
Me, O thou slender isle-may,
Each time shalt thou remember.”
Fair mouth, if thou mayst learn them;
For, clasp-mead, they may gain thee
At whiles some times beguiling.
Most precious, when thou wendest
Abroad, where folk are gathered,
Me, O thou slender isle-may,
Each time shalt thou remember.”
But when they were come a little way from the garth Viglund sang another stave.
“Amid the town we twain stood,
And there she wound around me
Her hands, the hawk-eyed woman,
The fair-haired, greeting sorely.
Fast fell tears from the maiden,
And sorrow told of longing;
Her cloth the drift-white dear one
Over bright brows was drawing.”
And there she wound around me
Her hands, the hawk-eyed woman,
The fair-haired, greeting sorely.
Fast fell tears from the maiden,
And sorrow told of longing;
Her cloth the drift-white dear one
Over bright brows was drawing.”
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[“A little way I led him]
[Ketilrid.]“A little way I led him,
The lord of sheen, from green garth;
But farther than all faring,
My heart it followeth after.
Yea, longer had I led him,
If land lay off the haven,
And all the waste of Ægir
Were into green meads waxen.”
| CHAPTER XVII. THE PARTING OF VIGLUND
AND KETILRID.
The Collected Works of William Morris | |