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Even as the skald Bragi sang:

He who threw the dead eyes

Of Thjazi, Skadi's father,

Into the Winds' Wide Basin

O'er the abodes of men-folk many.

And as Markús sang:

'Tis long since the dear-loved Warder

Of sea-men was born on the wave-girt earth-bottom

Of the Storm-Container; each man praises

The sublime age of the Ring-Dispenser.

Even as Steinn Herdísarson sang:

I sing the holy Ruler

Of the high World-Tent rather

Than men, for very precious

Is He: His praises tell I.

And as Arnórr Earls'-Skald sang:

Help, dear King of Heaven,

The Day's Plain, help my Hermundr.

And as Arnórr sang further:

Soothfast King of the Sun-Tents,

Help stout-hearted Rögnvaldr.