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to a firm persuasion that it would happen according to his desires. ——— Hervor therefore in the first stanza or strophe calls upon her father to awake and deliver to her his sword. —This not succeeding, in the next place the adjures him and his brethren by all their arms, the shield, &c. ——— Being still unanswered, she wonders that her father and uncles should be so mouldered to dust, as that nothing of them should remain, and adds, as it were by way of imprecation, so may you all be, &c. a form of conjuring not peculiar to this poem, Olaus Verelius quotes a like passage from another ancient piece to the following effect.
Alla quelie eitur ver
Innan rifia, oc vesta bal:
Innan rifia, oc vesta bal:
