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LODBROC'S DEATH-SONG.


CHORUS.

We hew’d with our Swords!

Lodbroc.

1. When first we landed on the Gothic shore, vengeance soon o’ertook the wily dragon miner of the ground—’twas then I won my Thora. Men call’d me Lod-broc, from what time I slew the snaky dweller of the heath. At that assault, my point, inlaid with burnish’d gold, transfix’d the circling monster of the earth.