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[12]. Völund home | from his hunting came,

From a weary way, | the weather-wise bowman;

A brown bear’s flesh | would he roast with fire;

Soon the wood so dry | was burning well,

(The wind-dried wood | that Völund’s was).

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[13]. On the bearskin he rested, | and counted the rings,

The master of elves, | but one he missed;