of Harald Haardraada, and is treated with the deepest tragic
impressiveness.

"Odin in Valhal I dare not seek
For him I forsook in my childhood.
And the new God in Gimle?
He took all that I had!
Revenge:--Who says revenge?--
Can revenge awaken my dead
Or shelter me from the cold?
Has it comfort for a widow's home
Or for a childless mother?
Away with your revenge: Let be!
Lay him on the litter, him and the son.
Come, we will follow them home.
The new God in Gimle, the terrible, who took all,
Let him also take revenge, for he understands it!
Drive slowly: Thus drove Ejnar ever;
--Soon enough shall we reach home."

It was also to the "Heimskringla" that Bjornson turned for
the subject of his epic cycle, "Arnljot Gelline." Here we
read in various rhythms of Arnljot the outlaw, how the hands
of all men are against him; how he offers to stay his wrath
and end the blood feud if the fair Ingigerd, Trand's daughter,
may be bestowed upon him; how, being refused, he sets fire
to Trand's house and bears Ingigerd away captive; how her
tears prevail upon him to release her, and how she seeks
refuge in a southern cloister; how Arnljot wanders restless
over sea and land until he comes to King Olaf, on the eve