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Five full winters    with Fjolvar was I,
And dwelt in the isle    that is Algrön called;
There could we fight,    and fell the slain,
Much could we seek,    and maids could master."

Thor spake:
17."How won ye success with your women?"

Harbarth spake:
18."Lively women we had,    if they wise for us were;
Wise were the women we had,    if they kind for us were;
For ropes of sand    they would seek to wind,
And the bottom to dig    from the deepest dale.
Wiser than all    in counsel I was,
And there I slept    by the sisters seven,
And joy full great    did I get from each.
What, Thor, didst thou the while?"