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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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CANTO III. The Legend of Ragnar Lodbrog.
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PART I.—The Journey.
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PART II.—The Shipwreck.
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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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But now Otlauga sat in her hall,
And many a guest sat silent there;—
The lamps were lit, the fires were bright,—
Outside the clouds formed a funeral pall
For the moon as it slept in the frozen air,
And the stars that hung in the chambers of night
Were wan as ghosts in the pale moonlight;
Mountains of ice, and frozen snow
Were here,—were there,—above and below.
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