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XXXVI. "One may hear how gold is metaphorically called Fulla's Snood, in this verse which Eyvindr Skald-Despoiler wrought:
- Fulla's shining Fillet,
- The forehead's sun at rising,
- Shone on the swelling shield-hill
- For skalds all Hakon's life-days.
XXXVII. "Gold is called Freyja's Tears, as was said before. So sang Skúli Thorsteinsson:
- Many a fearless swordsman
- Received the Tears of Freyja
- The more the morn when foemen
- We murdered; we were present.
And as Einarr Skúlason sang:
- Where, mounted 'twixt the carvings,
- The Tear of Mardöll lieth,
- We bear the axe shield-splitting,
- Swollen with Serpent's lair-gold.
And here Einarr has further periphrased Freyja so as to call her Mother of Hnoss, or Wife of Ódr, as standeth below:
- The shield, tempest's strong roof-ice,
- With tear-gold is unminished,
- Eye-rain of Ódr's Bed-Mate:
- His age the King so useth.
And again thus:
