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She is the fairest woman that sun ever looked on, or that man ever loved. 'It is a lie, answered Eigil. 'I know one lovelier still, and her name is Alruna. Odin does not love Freya so fondly as Eigil adores her. 'It is no lie, cried Slagfid, 'and may shame fall on him who slanders me.
'If I be indeed your king, and ye my men, wolves of the Goths, to-morrow we will go forth of this place, hated of Odin, rank with the innocent blood of the Alruna maid. Back to Adolf; back to our own people! Will you go? 'Back to Adolf! shouted the men. 'You will not leave us to be murdered? cried one of the girls. 'The mob are breaking the gates already! 'Silence, silly one!
Philammon felt too much respect, both for his age and his stately sadness, to break the silence. At last some louder burst of merriment than usual aroused him. 'What do you call that? said he, speaking in Greek. 'Folly and vanity. 'And what does she there the Alruna the prophet-woman, call it? 'Whom do you mean? 'Why, the Greek woman whom we went to hear talk this morning.
Hail, Slagfid, Eigil, and Wayland, sang the maidens. Swanvite, Alvilda, and Alruna are sent by the Norns, To bring joy to the princes of Finland. Then the tongues of the young men were unloosed, and Slagfid married Swanvite, Eigil Alruna, and Wayland Alvilda.
Smiles out each morning thence Odin Allfather; From under the cloud-eaves, Smiles out on the heroes, Smiles out on chaste housewives all, Smiles on the brood-mares, Smiles on the smith's work: And theirs is the sword-luck, With them is the glory So Odin hath sworn it Who first in the morning Shall meet him and greet him. Still the Alruna wept 'Who then shall greet him?
At the risk of her life, at the risk of being burned alive did anyone ever consider what that means? the noble Norse-woman, like an Alruna maid of old, hurls out her divine hereditary hatred of sin and filth and lies. At last she falls back on Christ Himself, as the only home for a homeless soul in such an evil time. And she is not burnt alive.
He now devoted himself to composition largely, and produced his first opera, "Alruna," which is said to have been very warmly received, both at Gotha and Weimar, in which latter city it was produced under the superintendence of the poet Goethe, who was intendant of the theatre.
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