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Extraordinary escape from drowning.

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“" Harr replied : " Every day, as soon as they are clothed, they straightway put on their armor and go out into the court and fight, and fell each other. That is their sport ; and when the time draws near to undern-meal, they ride home to Val- hall and sit down to drink, even as is said here: All the Einherjar in Odin's court Deal out blows every day; The slain they choose and ride from the strife, — Sit later in love together.”

— The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Gylfaginning XLI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Extraordinary escapes.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Clerics and property cast safely on shore when enemies attempt their drowningFisherman dragged through sea by seal escapes
Filed beside it
Hero (heroine) spared for his (her) beautyHero unharmed by serpent which coils around his waistAnimal escapes by slipping out of skin

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