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THE TALE OF HOGNI AND HEDINN


130

CHAP.IV. SORLI SLAYETH KING HALFDAN.

[Songs extracted from the prose narrative.]


131

[[The Sorli-Song]]

“Fell there the fight-greedy,
Foremost of war-host,
Eager in East-seas,
All on Hells' hall-floor;
Died there the doughty
In dale-fishes joy-tide,
With byrny-rod biting
The vikings in brand-thing.”