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The Sea-King

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

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Fierce Vidar, Odin's wondrous son,
Now seizes with tremendous power
The blood insatiate Fenris.
Vidar, than whom no stronger treads the field,

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Grasps with terrific might the monster's jaws.
The strife was fearful, but a cloud
Wrapped them in its humid shroud
And veiled them in from sight;
Yet one tremendous groan,
Told that the work was done;
That Fenris was o'erthrown,
Subdued by Odin's son.
And when the cloud had pass'd away,
And given the contest to the light of day,
The fallen Fenris met the sight;
His jaws were rent asunder,
And wrapped in flame, and clothed in thunder,
The unclean spirit fled, to seek the realms of night.