ernes

It remains to be said that the ernes move Sigurd to take the gold for the gladdening of the world, and they assure him that a son of the Volsung had nought to fear from the Curse.

The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature Conrad Hjalmar Nordby 1883

But a glimmer grows on the pavement and the ernes on the roof-ridge stir:

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

And the ernes cried over his head, as he builded his hearth of stones,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

And the huge hall riseth before her, and the ernes cry out from its height,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

Then long he rode adown it, and the ernes flew overhead,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

But the wild ernes cried about it, and the vultures toward it flew,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

And the huge hall riseth before her, and the ernes cry out from its height,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

And no sound in the house may ye hearken save the ernes that stir o'erhead,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865

And the ernes cried over his head, as he builded his hearth of stones,

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

But a glimmer grows on the pavement and the ernes on the roof-ridge stir:

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865