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Hamdir's Kirtle, as Hallfredr sang:

The war-sleet hard and streaming

Of Egill's weapons breaketh

Fiercely on Hamdir's Kirtles

Of the foremost wave-deer's warriors.

Sörli's Garments, as he sang further:

Thence the bright Weeds of Sörli

In men's blood must be reddened;

I hear it clearly: Wound-Fire

In cutting showers of iron.

Shields are called Tents of Hlökk, as Grettír sang:

Hlökk's Tent-Raisers held their noses

Together, and the heroes

Of the Rain-Storm of Hildr's Shield-Wall

Hewed at each other's beards.

Ródi's Roof, as Einarr sang:

Ródi's Roof's great Ice-Lump

For the Rain of Freyja's Eyelids

Grows not less, my fair axe-head;

His age my lord so useth.

Wall of Hildr, as Grettír sang, and as we have written before.

Ship-Sun, as Einarr sang:

In the sea Ólafr's Kinsman

Reddens the flame of the Ship-Sun.