Hymir spake:

[27]. “The half of our toil | wilt thou have with me, [[147]]

And now make fast | our goat of the flood;

Or home wilt thou bear | the whales to the house,

Across the gorge | of the wooded glen?”

[28]. Hlorrithi stood | and the stem he gripped,

And the sea-horse with water | awash he lifted;

Oars and bailer | and all he bore

With the surf-swine home | to the giant’s house.

[29]. His might the giant | again would match,