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 Sorle and Hamder Were both at once, With slippery stones, Struck to the ground. King Jormunrek Ordered Gjuke's descendants Violently to be stoned When they came to take the life Of Swanhild's husband. All sought to pay Jonaker's sons With blows and wounds.

This fall of men And sagas many On the fair shield I see. Ragnar gave me the shield.

Why is gold called Frode's meal? The saga giving rise to this is the following:

Odin had a son by name Skjold, from whom the Skjoldungs are descended. He had his throne and ruled in the lands that are now called Denmark, but were then called Gotland. Skjold had a son by name Fridleif, who ruled the lands after him. Fridleif's son was Frode. He took the kingdom after his father, at the time when the Emperor Augustus established peace in all the earth and Christ was born. But Frode being the mightiest king in the northlands, this peace was attributed to him by all who spake the Danish tongue, and the Norsemen called it the