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‘In Old English breadth, fullness, reflection, elegiac effect, were aimed at. Old Norse aims at seizing a situation, striking a blow that will be remembered, illuminating a moment with a flash of lightning – and tends to concision, weighty packing of the language in sense and form, and gradually to greater regularity of form of verse.’
‘Here deadly dwells the doom of kings! Here is fall of queens, fire and weeping, end untimely of Ódin’s hope!’
