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The Danish History
Books I-IX

BOOK EIGHT
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Thus, whilst he was so zealous in the worship of a false god, he came to find where the true prison of sorrows really was.

Moreover, the reek of the hair, which Thorkill plucked from the locks of the giant to testify to the greatness of his own deeds, was exhaled upon the bystanders, so that many perished of it.
After the death of Gorm, GOTRIK his son came to the throne.

He was notable not only for prowess but for generosity, and none can say whether his courage or his compassion was the greater.

He so chastened his harshness with mercy, that he seemed to counterweigh the one with the other.

At this time Gaut, the King of Norway, was visited by Ber (Biorn ?) and Ref, men of Thule.


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