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Thorn, as Arnórr sang:

He gathered, the young Wealth-Thorn,

Many great heaps of corpses

For the eagles, and his henchmen

Guided and helped the hero.

XLVII. "How should battle be periphrased? By calling it Storm of Weapons or of Sheltering Shields, or of Odin or the Valkyrs, or of Host-Kings; and Din and Clashing.

Thus sang Hornklofi:

The king hath held a Spear-Storm

With heroes, where the eagles

Screamed at the Din of Skögul;

The red wounds spat out blood.

Thus sang Eyvindr:

And that hero

At Háar's Tempest

Wore a sark

Of gray wolf-skin.

Thus sang Bersi:

In earlier days I seemed not

To Gunn's War-Bushes useful

In the Sleet of Hlökk, when younger

We were: so 't is said.