[a]38]. “Together they sleep not, | for so was it fixed

When the guard to them was given;

One sleeps by night, | the next by day,

So no man may enter ever.”

Svipdag spake:

[a]39]. “Now answer me, Fjolsvith, | the question I ask,

For now the truth would I know: [[245]]

Is there no meat | that men may give them,

And leap within while they eat?”

Fjolsvith spake: