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The translator does not aim to be an editor.
cadences
The four stresses of the Anglo-Saxon verse are retained,
Alliteration has been used to a l...
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Sievers’s C type has been avoided as not consonant with the plan of translation.
Not causeless lamented the daughter of Hoce
The decree of the Wielder when morning-light came and She was able ’neath heaven to behold the destruction Of brothers and bairns, where the brightest of earth-joys Finn’s force is almost exterminated. 30 She had hitherto had: all the henchmen of Finn War had offtaken, save a handful remaining, That he nowise was able to offer resistance
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