How may I win | a word with the maid
Past the hounds of Gymir here?”
The herdsman spake:
[12]. “Art thou doomed to die | or already dead,
Thou horseman that ridest hither?
Barred from speech | shalt thou ever be
With Gymir’s daughter good.”
Skirnir spake:
[13]. “Boldness is better | than plaints can be
For him whose feet must fare; [[112]]