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Then again spake the Eastland liar: “O King, I may not hide
That great things in the land of Atli thy mighty soul abide;
For the King is spent and war-weak, nor rejoiceth more in strife;
And his sons, the children of Gudrun, now look their first on life:

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For this end meseems is his bidding, that no worser men than ye
May sit in the throne of Atli and the place where he wont to be.”