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Canto I.
HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS.
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Like a shaveling who studies to cheat his vow?Can'șt thou be Witikind the Waster known,Royal Eric's fearless son,Haughty Gunhilda's haughtier lord,Who won his bride by the axe and sword;From the shrine of St Peter the chalice who tore,And melted to bracelets for Freya and Thor;With one blow of his gauntlet who burst the skull,Before Odin's stone, of the mountain bull?Then ye worshipp'd with rites that to war-gods belong,With the deed of the brave, and the blow of the strong,
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