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- The king most gift-gracious
- His guardsmen enriched
- With Fenja's Labor,
- With Fáfnir's Midgard,
- Glasir's bright Needles,
- Grani's fair Burden,
- Draupnir's dear dripping,
- Down of Grafvitnir.
- The free-handed Lord gave,
- The heroes accepted,
- Sif's firm-grown tresses,
- Ice of the bow-force,
- Otter-gild unwilling,
- Weeping of Mardöll,
- Fire-flame of Órun,
- Idi's fine Speeches.
- The warrior rejoiced;
- We walked in fair garments,
- In Thjazi's counsels
- The people's host-countless,
- In the Rhine's red metal,
- Wrangling of Niflungs,
- The leader war-daring,
- Warded Baldr not.
XLV. Gold is metaphorically termed Fire of the Hand, or of the Limb, or of the Leg, because it is red; but silver is called Snow, or Ice, or Hoar-Frost, because it is white. In like manner, gold or silver may be periphrased in metaphors of purse, or crucible, or lather, and both silver and gold may be called Hand-Stone, or Necklace, of any man who was
