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Again the council is begun;
Various clamors rend the hall:
Odin heard and judg’d of all.
Various clamors rend the hall:
Odin heard and judg’d of all.
VI.
Then, uprising from his place,
Odin—friend of human race,
Strait caprison’d his steed—
Sleipner of etherial breed.
As down to Hela’s realms he drew,
Thick the shades of darkness grew:
The Dog of Hell, with ceaseless bay,
Pursu’d the trav’ller on his way.
Then, uprising from his place,
Odin—friend of human race,
Strait caprison’d his steed—
Sleipner of etherial breed.
As down to Hela’s realms he drew,
Thick the shades of darkness grew:
The Dog of Hell, with ceaseless bay,
Pursu’d the trav’ller on his way.
VII.
Rous’d from his feast of death, with gore,
His shaggy limbs were crimson’d o’er:
Still round his fangs the fibres hung,
Quiv’ring on his frothy tongue.
He bark’d! and thro’ the void profound,
Hell re-echo’d to the sound.
Rous’d from his feast of death, with gore,
His shaggy limbs were crimson’d o’er:
Still round his fangs the fibres hung,
Quiv’ring on his frothy tongue.
He bark’d! and thro’ the void profound,
Hell re-echo’d to the sound.
