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The Sea-King

A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg

Bigg, J. Stanyan (1828-1865)

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THE SEA-KING.

CANTO I. The Legend of Otlauga.

II.

CANTO II. The Scald.

III.

CANTO III. The Legend of Ragnar Lodbrog.

IV.

CANTO IV. The Tomb of Orvar.

III.

PART III.

CANTO V. The Mysteries.

VI.

CANTO VI. The Recognition.

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Otlauga,—what aileth her?—pale as death,
Without a motion, without a breath,
Resteth there silent and alone,

As cold and as chill as a marble-stone!
For when that old man passed the door,
She knew his figure I ween of yore:
She had seen that form by the pale moonlight,
Wrapped in the mists of the chilly night.