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Thor spake:
13."Great trouble, methinks,    would it be to come to thee,
To wade the waters across,    and wet my middle;
Weakling, well shall I pay    thy mocking words,
if across the sound I come."

Harbarth spake:
14."Here shall I stand    and await thee here;
Thou hast found since Hrungnir died    no fiercer man."

Thor spake:
15."Fain art thou to tell    how with Hrungnir I fought,
The haughty giant,    whose head of stone was made;
And yet I felled him,    and stretched him before me.
What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?"

Harbarth spake:
16."