Over many great races an enthusiastic movement seems at a certain period to sweep, carrying them during a few years to success, alike in arms and song, till the- stream sinks back into its old channel, and the nation continues a career, honourable, it may be, but wanting in the peculiar ardour of its great age.

— Raymond Wilson Chambers Widsith: A Study in Old and English Heroic Legend (1912)

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