"ters were all one wound. The earth was dyed "red with the warm ftream. The fword rung upon the coats of mail, and clove the buck Cecidit multus in rictum ferarum Hybernorum fanguis in oceanum: "lers *lers in twain. None fled on that day, till among his fhips Heraudus fell. 66 Than him no braver baron cleaves the fea with fhips; a chearful heart did he ever bring to the com "bat. 21. Alte gladius mordebat Clypeos Tunc cum aurei coloris Hafta fricabat loricas Videre licuit in Onlugs infula Per fecula multum poft Ibi fuit ad gladiorum ludos Rubicundum erat circa infulam Ar volans Draco vulnerum. 22. Quid eft viro forti morte certius Sæpe deplorat ætatem Qui nunquam premitur Malum ferunt timidum incitare Aquilam ad gladiorum ludum Meticulofus venit nufpiam Cordi fuo ufui, 73. Hoc numero æquum ut procedat In contactu gladiorum Juvenis unus contra alterum Non retrocedat vir a viro. Hoc fuit viri fortis nobilitas diu Semper debet amoris amicus virginum Hoe "bat. * bat. Then the hoft threw away the "when the uplifted fpear flew at the "heroes. The fword bit the Scarf ranquillam facient. 28. quagies fignis facta ritatione & femel extavi hominum turus effet aci mucronem rubefacere ftantior vitabunt genda mors. 29. finire Dyle ni aula mifit am cum Afis de bibam ant horæ appears e Fates. ›intment Ella* was day when d pushed er we had y through makes me our father re feats prewe shall be fkulls of our nighty Odin, I come not > had condemned "armour. The crows around the Indirian * islands had an ample prey. It were difficult "to fingle out one among fo many deaths. deaths. At "the rifing of the fun I beheld the fpears pier 66 cing the bodies of foes, and the bows throwing "forth their steel-pointed arrows. Loud roared "the swords in the plains of Lano.-The virgin long bewailed the flaughter of that morning."-In this ftrain the poet continues to describe several other military exploits. The images are not much varied: the noise of arms, the ftreaming of blood, and the feafting the birds of prey, often recurring. He mentions the death of two of his fons in battle; and the lamentation he defcribes as made for one of them is very fingular. A Grecian or Roman poet would have introduced the virgins or nymphs of the wood, bewailing the untimely -fall of a young hero. But, fays our Gothic poet, "When Rogvaldus was flain, for him "mourned all the hawks of heaven," as lamenting a benefactor who had fo liberally füpplied them with prey; "for boldly," as he adds, "in the ftrife of fwords, did the breaker of hel "mets throw the fpear of blood." THE poem concludes with fentiments of the highest bravery and contempt of death. What "is more certain to the brave man than death, "though 3 |