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for

Magnus Magnusson

in gratitude

‘Wealth dies, kinsmen die, a man himself must likewise die. But one thing I know which never dies – world-fame, if justly earned.’

– Odin, in ‘Hávamál’ (‘Words of the High One’), from the Sæmundar Edda (Old Icelandic mythological poems)