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Gudrun
Gudrun by Unknown, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.
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How Hagen Was Carried Off by the Griffin
Sigeband, king of Ireland, after the death of his father, marries a princess of Norway, who bears him a son, Hagen. During the celebration of a court festival, Hagen, now seven years old, while outside the castle in the care of his attendants, is caught up by a griffin, and borne to his nest in a distant land.
In olden days in Ireland a king to greatness came
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