High labour, and full great appareling 844 Was at the service, and the pyre-making, That with its greenë top the heaven raught, 845 And twenty fathom broad its armës straught: 846 This is to say, the boughës were so broad. Of straw first there was laid many a load. But how the pyre was maked up on height, And eke the namës how the treës hight, 847 As oak, fir, birch, asp, 848 alder, holm, poplére, Will’w, elm, plane, ash, box, chestnut, lind, 849 laurére, Maple, thorn, beech, hazel, yew, whipul tree, How they were fell’d, shall not be told for me; Nor how the goddës 850 rannen up and down Disinherited of their habitatioún,
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