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The Danish History
Books I-IX

BOOK SEVEN
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The result was, that shafts which wounded others were disabled from doing him any harm.

Nor was the boon unrequited; for he is reported to have promised to Odin all the souls which his sword cast out of their bodies.

He also had his father's deeds recorded for a memorial by craftsmen on a rock in Bleking, whereof I have made mention.
After this, hearing that Wesete was to hold his wedding in Skaane, he went to the feast disguised as a beggar; and when all were sunken in wine and sleep, he battered the bride-chamber with a beam.

But Wesete, without inflicting a wound, so beat his mouth with a cudgel, that he took out two teeth; but two grinders unexpectedly broke out afterwards and repaired their loss: an event which earned him the name of Hyldetand, which some declare he obtained on account of a prominent row of teeth.

Here he slew Wesete, and got the sovereignty of Skaane.


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