and in another place,
Que cosa puede haber con que se iguale
La paciencia de un gato enamorado?
[33] This combat between Thor and the giantesses on the rocky isle is alluded to in the elder or poetic Edda, in the chapter called “Harbard’s song.” Harbard makes Thor the following reproach, when the latter tells him that he had beaten and put to flight the giantesses on the isle of Hlesey:
Shamefully didst thou act, O Thor!
When thou didst beat women.
Thor answers:
They were not women;
They were she-wolves;