Lost was my joy | as long as I lived.
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[57]. “Oddrun as wife | thou fain wouldst win,
But Atli this | from thee withholds;
Yet in secret tryst | ye twain shall love;
She shall hold thee dear, | as I had done
If kindly fate | to us had fallen.
[58]. “Ill to thee | shall Atli bring,
When he casts thee down | in the den of snakes.
[59]. “But soon thereafter | Atli too