There was no salt on board the sea-king’s vessels; so he said: “Grind salt.”
And Menia and Fenia ground salt for Mysingr.
At midnight they asked if they had ground enough.
And Mysingr bade them grind on.
And so they ground and ground until the ship was so heavy with salt that it sank, and the sea-king and all his men were drowned.
Where the quern stones went down there is to this day a great whirlpool, and the waters of the sea have been salt ever since.
THEY WOULD SWOOP DOWN AND BEAR HIS LIFELESS BODY TO VALHALLA
From the painting by K. Dielitz