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'My brother saw one, in the Northern sea, three fathoms long, with the body of a bison-bull, and the head of a cat, and the beard of a man, and tusks an ell long, lying down on its breast, watching for the fishermen; and he struck it with an arrow, so that it fled to the bottom of the sea, and never came up again. 'What is a nicor, Agilmund? asked one of the girls.
But I like to hear about wild beasts and ghosts, ogres, and fire-drakes, and nicors something that one could kill if one had a chance, as one's fathers had. 'Your fathers would never have killed nicors, said Wulf, 'if they had been 'Like us I know, said the Amal. 'Now tell me, prince, you are old enough to be our father; and did you ever see a nicor?
Nearer to the popular fancy lay deities of wood and fell, or hero-gods of legend and song; Nicor, the water-sprite who survives in our nixies and "Old Nick"; Weland, the forger of weighty shields and sharp-biting swords, who found a later home in the "Weyland's smithy" of Berkshire; Ægil, the hero-archer, whose legend is one with that of Cloudesly or Tell.
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