Th’ fire-red cock up-swingeth!—
Sits on the roof, and, with shrilly call
Flutt’ring, his free course wingeth.”
Tegnér’s Frithiof Saga (G. Stephens’s tr.).
Frithiof at the Shrine of Balder
Knut Ekwall
By Permission of F. Bruckmann, Munich
Frithiof, horror-stricken at the sacrilege which he had involuntarily occasioned, vainly tried to extinguish the flames and save the costly sanctuary, but finding his efforts unavailing he escaped to his ship and resolved upon the weary life of an outcast and exile.
“Thou may’st not rest thee,