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 may be here quoted as illustrating the spirit of the poem.

Ah! all Asloga's sons would fight to the death if they only knew their father's tortures. Has he not fought battles, fifty and one, "by the messenger-arrow announced"? "But the Ases come to call me—my death is not for weeping. Yea, would I die! The Dises, Odin's messengers, invite me to the Heroes' Hall. Gladly I go to drink on a throne by the Ases' side;

The sensual pleasures of Lodbrok's rude paradise are