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The Gifts of Two Heroes.
I will not say that my steps did not falter when we came to whence we could see the mound.

But it was lonely and still and silent; no shape of warrior waited our coming.
"Almost do I fear to go nearer," said Kolgrim.
"Put fear away, comrade," said I; "we shall fare ill if we turn our backs now." "Where you go I go," he answered, "though I am afraid." "The next best thing to not being afraid is to be afraid and not to show it," I said then, comforting myself also with a show of wisdom at least.

"Maybe fear is the worst thing we have to face." So we went on more swiftly, and at last were on the tongue of land on the tip of which the mound stood.

Still, since we could not see the open doorway, which was towards the water, the place seemed not so terrible.