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tbe antient northern ilcalcls, and has
now fpread itfelf beyond Europe ; fo
that rhyming is become as univerfal
as the complaint, that the number of
veriifiers increafes in the fame propor-r
tion as the number o f poets decreafes.
Baretti relates, that he heard a Mo-
lambique fong in rhyme from fome
negroes at Madrid. Gage fays the
fame o f the Mexicans ; and Niebuhr
mentions that the Arabs are great
rhymers.
T o conclude, I here prefent you
with a fpecimen of au Icelandic poeni
that Rugman compoied on the death
o f count Magnus de la Gardies. It
was printed at Upfal; but is become
fo fcarce, that I doubt whether any
perfon in Sweden has a printed copy of
it : it may at the fame time ferve to
iliew the nature o f a drottquade, as the
author has obferved almoil all the
rules that conilitute one :
Aut er i feggia faeti
Saknar maims i ranni
Gret
Gret ylgur Ragnvald rytto
Rom-ítamir haukar fromait
Kund Lodbrokar ; kiendo
Kuillinda valir illra :
Kuóldrido klarar hreldoil
Kneid ari mar fail reidar
Tijd fiello tar af giodi
Tafnlauiir xpto hrafnar.
Thuarr og vid theingils daud^
Thydur morg brad, i hijdi
Skreidaft thui berii ikisedur
Skiott marti gràds o f otta ;
Ox ódum falu faxa
Frar miog or leiptri tara
Huarma beckur ad hrockin
Hraut gron a bàtidar nauti»
Gretto ildnlaus aglastann
Gripdijr heidingia fuipuls
Verdar o f fsedo fordom
Fleinthings allvakran kiiigia
Og i oglodum huga
Undo iier menn og hrundir
Seims kuado mundar iònia
Sieirrhuor huit inalar thuerri.
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