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Or deep in wintertide When winds without make moan, I love my own fireside Not least when most alone.

So thereon they went to the Earl, and he made Frithiof and all his men right welcome, and they abode with him, in great honour holden, through the wintertide; and oft would the Earl ask of their voyage: so Biorn sang: "There baled we, wight fellows, Washed over and over On both boards By billows; For ten days we baled there, And eight thereunto."

Home I came at wintertide, But my silly love had died, Seeking with her latest breath Roses from the arms of Death.

Now, when that same wintertide had passed, and when the new buds were showing on the trees, Olaf Triggvison arrayed his ships ready for the sea.

So when Geira heard that alien folk were come into Wendland, with a great fleet of viking ships, and that the chief of them was a young man of unusual prowess and noble mien, she sent friendly messengers to the coast and bade the newcomers be her guests that wintertide, for the summer was now far spent, and the weather hard and stormy.