species called twi-saungr, they approved the remark. The line Hiuggom ver &c. is, therefore, printed separately as a chorus, and the rest as recitative. In the triple chorus of Tyrtæus, the infirmities of age were forgotten by the Spartan veterans while they sung to the youth, Αμμες ποκ΄ ημες αλκιμοι νεανιαι. The picture becomes more interesting, if we conceive Lodbroc to be surrounded by a groupe of faithful adherents, who console their dying Captain by leading him thro’ the scenes of his prosperity; and who, animated by an extatic remembrance of the share they had in his victories, strike up at intervals, Hiuggom ver med hiaurvi.
Stropha I. Regner begins with his expedition to Gothland. Herraud, a chieftain of that country, had a daughter Thora, who was detain’d in captivity by a serpent of an enormous size. Herraud declared the lady shou’d be the reward of any champion who effectuated her deliverance. Regner undertook the task; &, that he might not suffer from the serpent’s poison, wrapped himself in shaggy trowsers whence he was, afterwards, called Lodbroc. Thus
