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- And the Hoard-Diminisher hearkened
- To Thorsteinn; true my heart is
- To the Lord of the Wolf of Billows
- In the baleful Wrath-Wand's conflict.
And Ox also. The ship is called Snowshoe, or Wagon, or Wain. Thus sang Eyjólfr the Valiant Skald:
- Late in the day the young Earl
- In the Snowshoe of Landless Waters
- Fared with equal following
- To meet the fearless chieftain.
Thus sang Styrkárr Oddason:
- Högni's host drove the Wagons
- Of Rollers o'er Heiti's snow-Heaps,
- Angrily pursuing
- The great Giver of Flood-Embers.
And as Thorbjörn sang:
- The Freighter of Wave-Crests' Sea-Wain
- Was in the font of christening,
- Hoard-Scatterer, who was given
- The White Christ's highest favor.
LI. "How should one periphrase Christ? Thus: by calling Him Fashioner of Heaven and Earth, of Angels, and of the Sun; Governor of the World and of the Heavenly Kingdom and of Jerusalem and Jordan and the Land of the Greeks; Counsellor of the Apostles and of the Saints. Ancient skalds have written of Him in metaphors of Urdr's Well and Rome; as Eilífr Gudrúnarson sang:
