Highly he resolved To make his Deedless days henceforward strike Pure harmony-a psalm of silences.
"Rose and Roof-Tree Poems"
George Parsons Lathrop
To this the proud Aasta replied that she would rather have her son die young, after a brief and glorious career, like Olaf Tryggvesson, than die old, after a long and Deedless one, like Sigurd Syr.
"The Story of Norway"
Hjalmar H. Boyesen
No more should the long-lived wisdom o'er the waste of the wilderness stray; Nor the clear-eyed hero hasten to the Deedless ending of day.
"The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs"
William Morris