King Olaf answered: "I command
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But if you ask me to restoreYour sacrifices, stained with gore,Then will I offer human sacrifices! "Not slaves and peasants shall they be,But men of note and high degree,Such men as Orm of Lyra and Kar of Gryting!" Then to their Temple strode he in,And loud behind him heard the dinOf his men-at-arms and the peasants fiercely fighting. There in the Temple, carved in wood,The image of great Odin stood,And other gods, with Thor supreme among them.
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