Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed offerings to idols, s… - Seamus Heaney

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Sometimes at pagan shrines they vowed
offerings to idols, swore oaths that the killer of souls might come to their aid and save the people. That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.

Seamus Heaney

Beowulf · February 17, 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.

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