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 sun. They will find again the golden disks lost in the past, and peace and happiness will reign.

So sang the ancient bards; but we, living so long after, read another meaning in the story. There was a twilight of the gods, but it was not brought about by fire and sword. The foe who conquered them was He whom later singers called the ‘White Christ,’ before whose teaching the false faiths perished and the world grew young again.