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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
n; The blood that smokes from Doom-rings Falls back in redder rain. “The gods are what you make them, As earth shall Asgard prove; And hate will come of hating, And love will come of love. “Make dole of skyr and black bread That old and young may live; And look to Frey for favor When first like Frey you give. “Even now o'er Njord's sea-meadows The summer dawn begins: The tun shall have its harvest, The fiord its glancing fins.” Then up and swore Jarl Thorkell: “By Gimli and by Hel, O Vala of Thingvalla, Thou singest wise and well! “Too dear the Ae;sir's favors Bought with our children's lives; Better die than shame in living Our mothers and our wives. “The full shall give his portion To him who hath most need; Of curdled skyr and black bread, Be daily dole decreed.” He broke from off his neck-chain Three links of beaten gold; And each man, at his bidding, Brought gifts for young and old. Then mothers nursed their children, And daughters fed their sires, And He