But o’er snow-clad fields meandering down,

It ceased to flow, and it turn’d to stone.

GESTUR.

Of a white-hair’d female I’ve been told,

Who well knows how white balls to mould;

Yet hath this female never a hand:

This riddle, pray! dost thou understand?

SKIRNIR.

’Tis the long-neck’d swan with its colour white,

Who loves to sail on the lake so bright: