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l-irni, and his foot struck the skull of a horse, au<l a viper 

 came out of it and hit him iu the loir. 



"He suffered so much from this wound that they had to 

 lc;id him do\\u to the shore. When lie got there he said : 

 No\\ you must go and hew a stone coffin for me. while some 

 shall sit at my side and carve that song which I will compose 



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al>out my <leeds and life.' Then he l>egan making the song, 1 

 and they carved it on a tablet, 2 and the nearer the poem drew 

 to its end, the more the life of Odd ebbed away" (Orvar Odd's 

 Saga ; Fornaldar Sogur. p. .">f>X). 



: KvM'di, n poem nr song. The 

 f'iiMst> of seventy-one stan/.as with ei^ht 

 verses each, and the manuscripts are 



late and conn pi e.|. It is evidently made 

 up I'roin the lives nt' several warriors, ! 



and ot'U'ii exaggerated, e.g., that he lived 

 300 years, and that his height was 1<! 

 nr '24 feet. 



" Speldi talilet, flat piece of' wood. 



