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Of some huge eagle spread[1] the severed ribs
Of Ella, in the shield-roof’d hall they thought
One day from Ella’s skull to quaff the mead,
Their valours guerdon.
Of Ella, in the shield-roof’d hall they thought
One day from Ella’s skull to quaff the mead,
Their valours guerdon.
Their valours guerd Wild the Runic faith,
And wild the realms where Scandinavian Chiefs
And Scalds arose, and hence the Scalds’ strong verse
And wild the realms where Scandinavian Chiefs
And Scalds arose, and hence the Scalds’ strong verse
- ↑ Apud Anglos, Danos, aliasque nationes Boreales, victor
ignominia summâ debellatum adversarium affecturus, gladium
circa scapulas ad spinam dorsi adigebat, costasque, amplissimo
per corporis longitudinem facto vulnere, utrinque a spinâ
seperabet, quæ, ad latera deductæ, alas repræsentabent
Aquilinas. Hoc genus mortis vocabant Aquilam in dorso alicujus
delincere. Glossarium Islandicum M. S. S. ejusmodi vulnus sive
plagam testatur. In Jarlasagu, “tunc Comes Einarus in
dorso Halfdani Aquilinam excitavit plagam, ita ut gladuim
dorso adigerit, omnesque costas a spinâ seperaret usque ad
lumbos, indeque pulmones extraxit.” In Ormsagu, “Ormerus
evaginato gladio in dorso Erusi Aquilinam inflexit plagam,
separatis a dorso costis, and pulmonibus exemptis.
Stephanus Stephanius.
The death of Regner Lothbrog is well known. His sons revenged him by thus executing Ella of Northumberland.