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,