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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.
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CANTO I. The Legend of Otlauga.
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CANTO II. The Scald.
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THE SCALD'S TALE.
  
THE SCALD'S TALE, continued.
  
The Valkyries' Chorus.
  
THE SCALD'S TALE concluded.
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CANTO III. The Legend of Ragnar Lodbrog.
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CANTO IV. The Tomb of Orvar.
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CANTO V. The Mysteries.
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CANTO VI. The Recognition.

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“What meaneth this?” the hero said,
“I can behold with an unflinching eye
That fearful land, of horror and of dread,
The darksome regions of the ignoble dead,
Where spirits mean, in Hela's palace lie.
And aye uncurtained
Are things of deep and dreadful mystery,
And aye the scroll of destiny
Is by mine eye,—by far too daring, read.”
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