They will rob
The life of Fródi
unless they are killed soon, which will not take place;’ thereupon she leapt down from the seid-platform, and sang:—
‘Keen are the eyes
Of Ham and Hrani;[[314]]
The high-born are
Wonderfully bold.’
“Thereafter the boys ran out to the wood with great fear; their foster-father Regin recognized them and was very glad. The Volva had given them the good advice to run away when she ran out of the hall herself. The king asked men to rise and search for them. Regin extinguished all the lights in the hall, and each man held the other back, for some wished them to escape, and in this way they got into the wood” (Hrolf Kraki’s Saga, c. 3).
The Volva Gróa used spell-songs in order to get a whetstone out of Thor’s head.
“The Volva Gróa, wife of Örvandil the skilled, came and sang her spell-songs over Thor until the whetstone got loose. When Thor felt this, and had hope of getting rid of the whetstone, he wanted to reward Gróa for the cure, and make her glad, he told her the tidings that he had waded southward across Elivagar, and carried Örvandil in a basket on his back away from Jötunheimar; the proof of this was that one of his toes had projected out of the basket and frozen so that Thor broke it off and threw it upon the heaven, and made of it the star called Örvandil’s toe. Thor said he would soon come home. Gróa became so glad that she remembered no spell-songs, and the whetstone did not get loose, and still sticks in the head of Thor” (Skáldskaparmal, c. 17).