“But when through guile or negligence

A giant hath our laws profaned,

To empty that whole horn’s contents

Is oft the punishment ordain’d.

One draught the horn can seldom drain,

In two the feat we sometimes see;

But there is none among my train

Who cannot empty it in three.”

To him thus Asa-Lok replied:

“’Mongst all the chiefs in Odin’s realm,