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Thor spake:
21."Thou didst repay good gifts with evil mind."

Harbarth spake:
22."The oak must have    what it shaves from another;
In such things each for himself.
What, Thor, didst thou the while?"

Thor spake:
23."Eastward I fared,    of the giants I felled
Their ill-working women    who went to the mountain;
And large were the giants' throng    if all were alive;
No men would there be    in Mithgarth more.
What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?"

Harbarth spake:
24."In Valland I was,    and wars I raised,
Princes I angered,    and peace brought never;
The noble who fall    in the fight hath Othin,
And Thor hath the race of the thralls."