The town Odda in the county of Hordaland, Norway,
has 7,575 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. It is the centre of the landscape of Hardanger, located at the end of the Hardanger Fjord.
Long hath stood
Whatever birth most fair by day or night
A child--whom here I name of all most fair.
By lies Odysseus won me, to be bride
They took me and above the altar flame
When, lo, out of their vision in a flash
A deer to bleed; and on through a great space
Of Tauris the Unfriended set me down.html">down;
King Thoas rules. This is her sanctuary.html">sanctuary
Of worship here, wherein she hath delight--
Is near; I speak no further. mine.html">mine.html">mine.html">Mine it is
Doings of blood.html">blood.html">blood unspoken are the care
Ah me!
I have to tell thee, can that bring them ease!
I lay in Argos, and about me slept
With quaking like the sea. Out, out I fled,
Reel, and the beams and mighty door-trees down
One single oaken pillar, so I dreamed,
Waved from its head all brown: and suddenly
Fulfilling this mine office, built on blood
And washed him clean for death, mine eyes astream
Orestes is no more: on him did fall
Must be the man first-born; and they, on whom
Therefore to my deadbrother will I pour
And he beyond great seas, as still I may,
In war from Greece and gave me for mine own.
And wait them in the temple, where I dwell.
[She goes into the Temple.]
VOICE.
I am watching. Every side I turn mine eye.
(Enter ORESTES and PYLADES. Their dress shows fhey
How, brother? And is this the sanctuary
For sure, Orestes. Seest thou.html">thou not it is?
ORESTES.
How like long hair those blood-stains, tawny red!
ORESTES.
Aye, first-fruits of the harvest, when they catch
O God, where hast thou brought me? What new.
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