Excerpt from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, Fall of the Niblungs

There was a dwelling of Kings ere the world was waxen old;

Dukes were the door-wards there, and the roofs were thatched with gold;

Earls were the wrights that wrought it, and silver nailed its doors;

Earls' wives were the weaving-women, queens' daughters strewed its floors,

And the masters of its song-craft were the mightiest men that cast

The sails of the storm of battle adown the bickering blast.

There dwelt men merry-hearted, and in hope exceeding great

Met tire good days and the evil as they went the way of fate:

There the Gods were unforgotten, yea whiles they walked with men,

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