And feasted all his pirate crew;

Then in his low and pine-built hall,

Where shields and axes decked the wall,

They gorged upon the half-dressed steer;

Caroused in seas of sable beer;

While round, in brutal jest, were thrown

The half-gnawed rib and marrow-bone,

Or listened all, in grim delight,

While scalds yelled out the joy of fight,

Then forth in frenzy would they hie,