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PROSE EDDA
Sveidi's Reindeer:
- O Son of Sveinn strife-valiant,
- Thou comest with Sveidi's Reindeer,
- Long of seam, on the Seat of Sölsi;
- The Sound-Deer from land glided.
So sang Hallvardr. Here the ship is also called Deer of the Sound; and the Sea is called Sölsi's Seat.
Thus sang Thórdr Sjáreksson:
- The swift Steed of the Gunwale
- Around Sigg veered from northward,
- The gust shoved Gylfi's Stream's Mirth,
- The Gull's Wake-Horse, to southward
- Of Aumar, laying fleetly
- Both Körmt and Agdir's coastline
- Along the stern; by Listi
- The Leek's Steed lightly bounded.
Here the ship is called Steed of the Gunwale; and the sea is Gylfi's Land; the sea is also called Gull's Wake. The ship is called Horse, and further, Horse of the Leek: for 'leek' means 'mast.'
And again, as Markús sang:
- The Stream's Winterling waded
- Stoutly the Firth-Snake's Snow-Heaps;
- The Tusker of the Mast-Head
- Leaped o'er the Whale's spurned House-Tops;
- The Bear of the Flood strode forward
- On the ancient paths of sea-ships;
- The Stay's Bear, shower-breasting.
- Broke the Reef's splashing Fetter.
