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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga of King Olaf XII. -- King Olaf's Christmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Drontheim, Olaf the King<br>Heard the bells of Yule-tide ring,<br>As he sat in his banquet-hall,<br>Drinking the nut-brown ale,<br>With his bearded Berserks hale<br>And tall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three days his Yule-tide feasts<br>He held with Bishops and Priests,<br>And his horn filled up to the brim;<br>But the ale was never too strong,<br>Nor the Saga-man's tale too long,<br>For him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O'er his drinking-horn, the sign<br>He made of the cross divine,<br>As he drank, and muttered his prayers;<br>But the Berserks evermore<br>Made the sign of the Hammer of Thor<br>Over theirs. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gleams of the fire-light dance<br>Upon helmet and hauberk and lance,<br>And laugh in the eyes of the King;<br>And he cries to Halfred the Scald,<br>Gray-bearded, wrinkled, and bald,<br>'Sing!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sing me a song divine,<br>With a sword in every line,<br>And this shall be thy reward.'<br>And he loosened the belt at his waist,<br>And in front of the singer placed<br>His sword. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Quern-biter of Hakon the Good,<br>Wherewith at a stroke he hewed<br>The millstone through and through,<br>And Foot-breadth of Thoralf the Strong,<br>Were neither so broad nor so long,<br>Nor so true.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the Scald took his harp and sang,<br>And loud through the music rang<br>The sound of that shining word;<br>And the harp-strings a clangor made,<br>As if they were struck with the blade<br>Of a sword. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Berserks round about<br>Broke forth into a shout<br>That made the rafters ring:<br>They smote with their fists on the board,<br>And shouted, 'Long live the Sword,<br>And the King!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the King said, 'O my son,<br>I miss the bright word in one<br>Of thy measures and thy rhymes.'<br>And Halfred the Scald replied,<br>'In another 't was multiplied<br>Three times.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then King Olaf raised the hilt<br>Of iron, cross-shaped and gilt,<br>And said, 'Do not refuse;<br>Count well the gain and the loss,<br>Thor's hammer or Christ's cross:<br>Choose!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Halfred the Scald said, 'This<br>In the name of the Lord I kiss,<br>Who on it was crucified!'<br>And a shout went round the board,<br>'In the name of Christ the Lord,<br>Who died!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then over the waste of snows<br>The noonday sun uprose,<br>Through the driving mists revealed,<br>Like the lifting of the Host,<br>By incense-clouds almost<br>Concealed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the shining wall a vast<br>And shadowy cross was cast<br>From the hilt of the lifted sword,<br>And in foaming cups of ale<br>The Berserks drank 'Was-hael!<br>To the Lord!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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Heard the bells of Yule-tide ring,
As he sat in his banquet-hall,
Drinking the nut-brown ale,
With his bearded Berserks hale
And tall. 

Three days his Yule-tide feasts
He held with Bishops and Priests,
And his horn fil..."></div>
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