Danorum mentes beat ipse dies Sitientes!
Filius Ebbonis Nicholaus more leonis
stravit serpentem Gerardum bella gerentem.”
IX
NIELS EBBESON, 1340
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The Count to Denmark took his way,
Nor failed for fear of strife,
Tho’ langsyne ’twas to him foretold
He there should lose his life.