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Now Sinfiotli's men beheld it and grew exceeding wroth,
But Sinfiotli laughed and answered: “The day's work hath been meet:
Thou hast done well, war-brother, to sift the chaff from the wheat;
Nought have kings' sons to meddle with the refuse of the earth,
Nor shall warriors burden their long-ships with things of nothing worth.”