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love-sickness. Skirnir was the name of Freyr’s servant; Njorth bade him ask speech of Freyr. He said:
1."Go now, Skirnir! and seek to gain
Speech from my son;
And answer to win, for whom the wise one
Is mightily moved."
Skirnir spake:
2."Ill words do I now await from thy son,
If I seek to get speech with him,
And answer to win, for whom the wise one
