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ODES,
AND OTHER
ANCIENT POEMS.
I THOUGHT proper to subjoin to the
Edda the following pieces, selected
out of that vast multitude of verses, which
we find preserved in the ancient Chronicles.
These are such as appeared to me most expressive of the genius and manners of the ancient inhabitants of the north, and most proper to confirm what I had advanced in the preceding Volume; as also to shew that the Mythology contained in the Edda, hath been that of all the northern Poets, and the religion of many nations drest out with fictions and allegories.
I shall first of all present the Ode which Regner Lodbrog composed in the torments preceding his death. This Ode was dictated by the Fanaticism of Glory,
