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"More and more did it become a world of night, where they sailed over darkened silver-sparked seas between the drifting moon-ghostly mountains of the icebergs. The sky was a tremendous vault of utter blackness, frosted with uncounted bitter-brilliant stars, and between the constellations leaped the silent spectral flames of the northern lights."

"'Greeting, Skafloc,' said the As. His voice was deep and vibrant, as of a storm-wind blowing through a sky of brass."

"The hardest fight was on a desert shore with a troop of exiled gods, grown thin and shrunken and mad in their loneliness but still wielding fearsome powers. Three elf ships were burned after the fight, there being none left to man them, but Imric was the victor."