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As Snæbjorn sang:

They say nine brides of skerries

Swiftly move the Sea-Churn

Of Grótti's Island-Flour-Bin

Beyond the Earth's last outskirt,—

They who long the corny ale ground

Of Amlódí; the Giver

Of Rings now cuts with ship's beak

The Abiding-Place of boat-sides.

Here the sea is called Amlódi's Churn.

As Einarr Skúlason sang:

The sturdy drive-nails weaken

In the swift swirl, where paleth

Rakni's Heaving Plain: wind

Puffs the reefs against the stays.

XXVI. "How should one periphrase the sun? By calling her Daughter of Mundilfari, Sister of the Moon, Wife of Glenr, Fire of Heaven and of the Air. Even as Skúli Thorsteinsson sang:

Glenr's god-blithe Bed-Mate wadeth

Into the Goddess's mansion

With rays; then the good light cometh

Of gray-sarked Máni downward.

Thus sang Einarr Skúlason:

Whereso the lofty flickering

Flame of the World's Hall swimmeth

O'er our loved friend, who hateth

And lavisheth the sea-gold.