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The mermen rested from their weary search for hidden treasures, and the mermaids forgot to comb their long tresses, as the radiant vessel and its hero-freight glided past. And even old King AEgir left his brewing-kettle in his great hall, and bade his daughters, the white-veiled Waves, cease playing until the vessel should safely reach its haven.
"See, child of my heart," said Hilda, addressing Edith, while she still gazed on the western luminary, "see, the sun goes down to the far deeps, where Rana and Aegir watch over the worlds of the sea; but with morning he comes from the halls of the Asas the golden gates of the East and joy comes in his train.
Did he express approval? This was too much for Michael. "My dear Hermann," he said, "we alluded very cautiously to the 'Song to Aegir' this morning, and delicately remarked that you had heard it once and I twice. How can you care what his opinion of this opera is?" Falbe shook his handsome head, and gesticulated with his fine hands. "You don't understand," he said.
The "Wacht am Rhein" made a half-hearted effort to be present, but in the night we had the Emperor's own "Sang an Aegir," stuck in the middle of a Wagner programme. Beyond this, compliment could scarcely go. This brazen air was the one jar on the poetry of a spectacle possible only in Venice. Imagine it!
Then he lectured us on the family portraits till dinner; after dinner there was a concert, at which he conducted the 'Song to Aegir, and then there was a torch-light fandango by the tenants on the lawn. He was on his holiday, you must remember." "I heard the 'Song to Aegir' once," remarked Falbe, with a perfectly level intonation.
AEgir the Old groaned from under the deep, and sent his daughters up to mourn around the dead. Frost-giants and mountain-giants came crowding round the rimy shores of Jotunheim to look across the sea upon the funeral of an Asa. Nanna came, Baldur's fair young wife; but when she saw the dead body of her husband, her own heart broke with grief, and the AEsir laid her beside him on the stately ship.
Lastly, poor blind Hoder, overcome with grief, was carried thither on the back of one of the Frost-giants. And Old AEgir, the Ocean king, raised his dripping head above the water, and gazed with dewy eyes upon the scene; and the waves, as if affrighted, left off their playing, and were still.
"It is the ship of ghosts," said Dalfin. "I have heard tell of it. It comes from the blessed isles which holy Brendan sought." "Nay," said Gerda; "it is Aegir's ship, and it came for my grandsire." "Maybe," answered Dalfin. "I ken not who Aegir is of whom you speak. But the ship may indeed have come for Thorwald to take him to some land, like those isles, beyond our ken."
Regin says, "Trust me well herein; and with that same sword shalt thou slay Fafnir." Ran is the goddess of the sea, wife of Aegir. So Regin makes a sword, and gives it into Sigurd's hands. He took the sword, and said "Behold thy smithying, Regin!" and therewith smote it into the anvil, and the sword brake; so he cast down the brand, and bade him forge a better.
The illuminations were extinguished by a terrific torrent that sent the people pattering away into the black, starless night, gleaming with rain and fire; and to-night when the imperial band attempted to play "Sang an Aegir" again, the heavens fell, and audience and orchestra vanished in the twinkling of a gas-lamp, while the pavement of the Piazza glittered golden as the facade of St.
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