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"There shall be no stranger thing at Sevafell, early or late, than that thou, king-born, Högni's fair daughter, shouldst be alive in the grave and sleep in a dead man's arms."
The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday
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Not to the man who was king-born merely, did their allegiance go, but to the man who showed himself their leader in courage and their master in skill.
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King; but she knelt down before him, and laid her hand on his steel-clad knee, and said: "O my lord, now I see that thou hast beguiled me, and that thou wert all along a king-born man coming home to thy realm.
Wood Beyond the World William Morris 1865
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"All hail, Harold, heir of Godwin the great, and Githa the king-born!
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"All hail, Harold, heir of Godwin the great, and Githa the king-born!
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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