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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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I.

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.