Fast und rof der war-man shnore
Like de hammer-shlog of Thor,
Schnell ash Mjollner's bang und beatf
Heaved de form from het to veet,
Vhile apofe him in de shkies
Dere he saw a glorie rise,
Und im mittle von it all
De iron lords of crate Valhall.
Long he gaze mit woUen glare
At de AesirJ in de air.
* " From the palpitations of dying human victims, Druids and
Druidesses were wont to draw their auguries." — The Early
Baces of Scotland, by Lieut. Col. Forbes Leslie. London, 1866.
t Mjollner, The Hammer of Thor.
i Gods in the Norse religion.
BREITMANN AS AN UHLAN. 175

Long mit Blmeerin baren grin
He toorn his nase auf und hin
(For ne'er a Sherman — tarn de otts —
Vas efer yet gife in to Gotts,)
Dill avery Aes-owned oop dat he
A gott-like man of brass moost pe.
Shtern der Breitmann raise his het,
To his fader Gotts he set :
" Let your worts of wisehood shlip ;
Rush your runes, und let 'em rip I
For you de gotts hafe efer pe
Of dose who vere ash gotts to me : —
Alt Thor der Thoren here pelow —
Vot hell you vants,* I'd like to know ?"

Antworded ash de donner clangs,
Der fader of de°iron bangs :
" De gotts will let de hell dogs go,
Und raise damnation here pelow ;



* Dese ontpresstoiis Ish not to pe angeseen py anjrpoclies ash
lehvearin, boot ash indereBdin Norse or Sherman idioms. Goot
many refiewers yot refiewsed to admire soosh derms in de earlier
editions ish politelich reqnestet to braise dem in future nodices
bom a transcendental philological stand-point.
Fritz ScHWi.CEEiiHAMi(EB.
17S HAm BREITMANN'8 BALLADS.
