THE POESY OF SKALDS
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north out of Jötunheim. And he added for a token, that one of Aurvandill's toes had stuck out of the basket, and became frozen; wherefore Thor broke it off and cast it up into the heavens, and made thereof the star called Aurvandill's Toe. Thor said that it would not be long ere Aurvandill came home: but Gróa was so rejoiced that she forgot her incantations, and the hone was not loosened, and stands yet in Thor's head. Therefore it is forbidden to cast a hone across the floor, for then the hone is stirred in Thor's head. Thjódólfr of Hvin has made a song after this tale in the Haustlöng. [It says there:
- On the high and painted surface
- Of the hollow shield, still further
- One may see how the Giant's Terror
- Sought the home of Grjótún;
- The angry son of Jörd drove
- To the play of steel; below him
- Thundered the moon-way; rage swelled
- In the heart of Meili's Brother.
- All the bright gods' high mansions
- Burned before Ullr's kinsman;
- With hail the earth was beaten
- Along his course, when the he-goats
- Drew the god of the smooth wain forward
- To meet the grisly giant:
- The Earth, the Spouse of Odin,
- Straightway reft asunder.
