THE POESY OF SKALDS
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- Downward the Fells of Fullness
- Fall on the Bear of Tackle:
- Now forward Winterling, stirreth,
- The ship, on Glammi's sea-path.
Comber,[1] as here:
- The Comber fell headlong o'er me;
- The Main called me home unto it:
- I accepted not the Sea's bidding.
Breaker, as Óttarr sang:
- In burst the ship-sides thin;
- Rushed the Breaker downward; flushed
- Stood the wind, bane of the wood;
- Men endured wild tempest then.
Wave, as Bragi sang:
- The Giver of the Wave's Coals,
- Who cut Thor's slender tackle,
- The Line of the Land of Sea-Mews,
- Loved not to fight the wroth sea.
Sound, as Einarr sang:
- I sheared the Sound
- From Hrund south-bound;
- My hand was gold-wound
- When the Giver I found.
- ↑ So Cl.-Vig. Literally, the word means ominous, foreboder.