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respond to the capes in Seeland. Thus says Brage, the old skald:

Gefjun glad
Drew from Gylfe
The excellent land,
Denmark's increase,
So that it reeked
From the running beasts.
Four heads and eight eyes
Bore the oxen
As they went before the wide
Robbed land of the grassy isle.[1]

  1. Heimskringla: Ynglinga Saga, ch. v.