On freeing hands | and helping foot-prints.

[17]. On glass and on gold, | and on goodly charms,

In wine and in beer, | and on well-loved seats,

On Gungnir’s point, | and on Grani’s breast,

On the nails of Norns, | and the night-owl’s beak.

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[18]. Shaved off were the runes | that of old were written,

And mixed with the holy mead,

And sent on ways so wide;

So the gods had them, | so the elves got them,