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`` So from that day henceforward folk hung upon my words , For the battle of the autumn , and the harvest of the swords ; And e ` en more was I loved than aforetime . So wore a year away , And heavy was the burden of the lore that on me lay . `` But my fosterer the Hall-Sun took sick at the birth of the year , And changed her life as the year changed , as summer drew anear . But she knew that her life was waning , and lying in her bed She taught me the lore of the Hall-Sun , and every word to be said At the trimming in the midnight and the feeding in the morn , And she laid her hands upon me ere unto the howe she was borne With the kindred gathered about us ; and they wotted her weird and her will , And hailed me for the Hall-Sun when at last she lay there still . And they did on me the garment , the holy cloth of old , And the neck-chain wrought for the goddess , and the rings of the hallowed gold . So here am I abiding , and of things to be I tell , Yet know not what shall befall me nor why with the Wolfings I dwell . '' Then said the carline : `` What seest thou , O daughter , of the journey of to-day ?