The Nibelungenlied

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The Nibelungenlied
William Henry Carpnter
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So, as your life you value, out with you to the strand." LIV "Nay, speak not so," said Hagan, "you see my drooping cheer; Take of me, and welcome, the gold I hand you here.
And ferry a thousand horses and as many knights of pride." " That will I do never," the ferryman grim replied.
LV With the word up caught he an oar both broad and long.
And lent the knight a buffet so sturdy and so strong.
That in the boat he brought him at once upon his knee.
Such a boisterous boatman never before met he.
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...VI Yet more the haughty stranger to wrath would he provoke, So on the head of Hagan a boat-pole next he broke.
The ferryman of Elsy was stu^e a lusty wight.
Yet naught but loss and ruin got he by all his might LVII The grim knight up starting ended soon the fray ; To the sheath quick gripp'd he wherein his weapon lay.
Off he his head has smitten, and to the bottom thrown.
Soon were the glad tidings to the bold Burgundians known.
Digitized by Google aso THE NIBELUNGENUED LVIII The boat meanwhile, ere Hagan its master yet had slain.


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