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Thus sang Gamli:

While the Lord of high Bilskirnir,

Whose heart no falsehood fashioned,

Swiftly strove to shatter

The sea-fish with his hammer.

Thus sang Thorbjörn Lady's-Skald:

Bravely Thor fought for Ásgard

And the followers of Odin.

Thus sang Bragi:

And the vast misshapen circler

Of the ship's sea-path, fierce-minded,

Stared from below in anger

At the Skull-Splitter of Hrungnir.

Again sang Bragi:

Well hast Thou, Hewer-in-Sunder

Of the nine heads of Thrívaldi,

Kept thy goats^[1] . . .

Thus sang Eilífr:

The Merciless Destroyer

Of the people of the Giants

Grasped with ready fore-arms

At the heavy red-hot iron.

1. The remainder of this stanza cannot be made out.