[a]2]. “Ill words do I now | await from thy son,

If I seek to get speech with him,

And answer to win, | for whom the wise one

Is mightily moved.”

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Skirnir spake:

[a]3]. “Speak prithee, Freyr, | foremost of the gods,

For now I fain would know;

Why sittest thou here | in the wide halls,

Days long, my prince, alone?”