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PROSE EDDA
Sea-Kings; likewise Encircler of Islands; House of Sands and of Kelp and of Reefs; Land of Fishing-gear, of Sea-Fowls, and of Fair Wind. Even as Ormr Barrey's-Skald sang:
- On the gravelly beach of good ships
- Grates the Blood of Ymir.
As Refr sang:
- The mild deer of the masthead beareth
- O'er the murky water from the westward
- Her wave-pressed bows; the land I look for
- Before the beak; the Whale-Home shallows.
Even as Steinn sang:
- When the fallow fell-wall's Whirlwinds
- Wove o'er the waves full fiercely,
- And Ægir's storm-glad daughters
- Tore, of grim frost begotten.
And as Refr sang:
- Gymir's wet-cold Spae-Wife
- Wiles the Bear of Twisted Cables
- Oft into Ægir's wide jaws,
- Where the angry billow breaketh.
It is said here that Ægir and Gymir are both the same. And he sang further:
- And the Sea-Peak's Sleipnir slitteth
- The stormy breast rain-driven,
- The wave, with red stain running
- Out of white Rán's mouth.
