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 “Right onwards through the forest wide
 * “To yonder oakwood high!

“Fast by the path is a sacred rock,
 * “A rock to the gods right dear;

“There pay thy offerings to the gods,
 * “Who rescued thee from fear,

“For victory that’s past and gone,
 * “For victory that’s near!

“Or ere the sun in onward course
 * “Ascends the heaven’s height,

“Thou wilt be there arriv’d, and ere “A second step and a third he takes
 * “O’er the tall tree-tops in sight,

“The armies too will have arriv’d
 * “Where smoky columns high

“From the victim rise into the skies, “And the warriors will bend, as on they wend,
 * “In meek humility.”

And Voimir springs on a gallant steed,
 * And swift, as a stag, doth fly

On through the forest to the rock,
 * That stands in the oakwood high;

And on the summit of the rock,
 * The rock to the gods right dear,