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to death by serpents. While he was dying he composed this song, wherein he records all the valiant atchievements of his life, and threatens Ella with vengeance; which history: informs us was afterwards executed by the sons of Regner.
“It is, after all, conjectured that Regner himself only composed a few stanzas of this poem, and that the rest were added by his Scald or poet-laureat, whose business it was to add to the solemnities of his funeral by singing some poem in his praise.
L’Edda par Chev. Mallet. p. 150.
“This piece is translated from the Islandic original published by Olaus Wormius in his Literatura Runica,
