FER-OE 
But hold—ere thou fhouldft fall a prey 
To thefe fierce flames that round it play, 
The fword from out the tomb I'll bring; 
Go, and the fong of triumph fing. 
HERVOR. 
Offspring of kings! I know thee now, 
And thus before thy prefence bow ; 
Father, Hero, Prince, and Friend ! 
Yo thee my grateful knees I bend. 
Not half fo happy had I been, 
Tho’ Scandinavia hail’d me queen. 
ANGANTYR. 
How art thou: to thy int’reft blind, 
Weak woman, tho’ of dauntlefs mind! 
Tirfing, the obje& of thy joy; 
Thy future offspring fhall deflroy. 
HERVOR. 
My feamen call; I muft away: 
Adieu, O King ! I cannot ftay. 
Fate, do thy worft! in times to come 
Be what it may, my children’s doom ! 
ANGANTYR. 
Take then, and keep Hia/mar’s bane, 
Dy’d in the blood of -heroes flain. 
Is LE-S. 
Long fhall the fatal pledge be thine, 
Hervor, if truly I divine ; 
The fell, devouring, poifon’d blade, 
For death and for deftruétion made. 
HERVoR. 
With joy the two-edg’d fword I take, 
Nor reck the havock it will make ; 
Poffefling which, I little rue 
Whate’er my frantic fons may do. 
ANGANTYR, 
Daughter, farewell ! as thou doft lives 
To thee the death of twelve I give: | 
To thee, O maid of warlike mind, 
What Axngrym’s fons have left behind. 
HERVOR. 
Angantyr, reft in peace! and all 
Ye ghofts, who have obey’d my call; 
Reft in your mould’ring vaults below. ! 
While from this houfe of death I go, 
Where, burfting from the vap’rous ground,:, 
Meteors fhoot, and blaze around. 
I fhall juft mention, that the antient Scandinavians had alfo their Cromlehs * I 
ean trace but one inftance, and that on the top of a tumulus in Zealand ; which, 
with two other barrows, is included in a fquare of ftones. 
Circles, for the purpofe of religious rites, were not wanting here. The Ette/tupa, 
gr circle of lofty rude columns in W/? Gothland, was celebrated for the facrifices 
of the heathens +; and the great ftones at Finffad, difpofed in form of a cell, 
and called Sz. Birgitta’s Oratory {, was no other than a temple of worlhip, ana- 
logous, probably, to that of the Druids. 
The next ftep is to the FERoE iflands, a group about two hundred and ten miles to- . 
the north-weft of the northern Schetland, between lat. 61, 15. and 62, 30. There are 
feventeen which are habitable, each of which is a lofty mountain arifing out of the 
waves, divided from the others by deep and rapid currents. Some of them are 
deeply indented with fecure harbours ; providence feeming to have favored mankind 
with the fafeft retreats in the moft boifterous feas. All are-very fteep, and moft of . 
t The fame, 105. 
them 
* Wormit Mon, Dan. p. 3. + Dathberg, tab.. 280. 
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Ferog Isues. 
