THE ELDER EDDA OF SAEMUND
Wanderer.
5. From the eye's delight few are disposed to hurry, where there is something pleasant to be seen. These walls, methinks, shine around golden halls. Here I could live contented with my lot.
Fiolsvith.
6. Tell me, youth; of whom thou art born, or of what race hast sprung.
Wanderer.
7. Vindkald I am called, Varkald was my father named, his sire was Fiolkald.
8. Tell me, Fiolsvith! that which I will ask thee, and I desire to know: who here holds sway, and has power over these lands and costly halls?
Fiolsvith.
9. Menglod is her name, her mother her begat with Svaf, Thorin's son. She here holds sway, and has power over these lands and costly halls.
Vindkald.
10. Tell me, Fiolsvith! etc., what the grate is called, than which among the gods mortals never saw a greater artifice?
Fiolsvith.
11. Thrymgioll it is called, and Solblindi's three sons constructed it: a fetter fastens every wayfarer, who lifts it from its opening.
Vindkald.
12. Tell me, Fiolsvith! etc., what that structure is
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