[36]. “Gif call they one, | and Geri the other,

If now the truth thou wouldst know;

Great they are, | and their might will grow,

Till the gods to death are doomed.”

Svipdag spake:

[a]37]. “Now answer me, Fjolsvith, | the question I ask,

For now the truth would I know:

May no man hope | the house to enter,

While the hungry hounds are sleeping?”

Fjolsvith spake: