Thus, while she announced the fate of her son to her husband, she united them in death, and followed the obsequies of both with equal mourning; shedding the tears of a wife upon the one and of a mother upon the other; though at that moment she ought to have been cheered with comfort rather than crushed with disasters.
ENDNOTES: (1) Utgard.

Saxo, rationalising as usual, turns the mythical home of the giants into some terrestrial place in his vaguely-defined Eastern Europe.
(2) Kanute.

Here the vernacular is far finer.

The old king notices "Denmark is drooping, dead must my son be!", puts on the signs of mourning, and dies..