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PROSE EDDA
This is said in Eiríksmál:
- What dream is that? quoth Odin,—
- I thought to rise ere day-break
- To make Valhall ready
- For troops of slain;
- I roused the champions,
- Bade them rise swiftly
- Benches to strew,
- To wash beer-flagons;
- The Valkyrs to pour wine,
- As a Prince were coming.
Kormákr sang this:
- I pray the precious Ruler
- Of Yngvi's people, o'er me
- To hold his hand, bow-shaking.
- Hroptr bore with him Gungnir.
Thórálfr sang this:
- The Mighty One of Hlidskjálf
- Spake his mind unto them
- Where the hosts of fearless
- Hárekr were slaughtered.
Thus sang Eyvindr:
- The mead which forth
- From Surtr's sunk dales
- The Strong-through-spells
- Swift-flying bore.
