Sæmundr Sigfússon

“ Thor.
3. Ferry me across the sound, to-morrow I'll regale thee. I have a basket on my back: there is no better food: at my ease I ate, before I quitted home, herrings and oats, with which I yet feel sated.
Harbard.
4. Thou art in haste to praise thy meal: thou surely hast no foreknowledge; for sad will be thy home: thy mother, I believe, is dead.
Thor.
5. Thou sayest now what seems to every one most unwelcome to know—that my mother is dead.
Harbard.
6. Thou dost not look like one who owns three country dwellings, bare-legged thou standest, and like a beggar clothed ”

“ A mighty Jotun I believed Hlebard to be: a magic wand he gave me, but from his wits I charmed him.
Thor.
21. With evil mind then thou didst good gifts requite.
Harbard.
22. One tree gets that which is f rom another scraped: each one in such case is for self. What meanwhile didst thou, Thor?
Thor.
23. In the east I was, and slew the Jotun brides, crafty in evil, as they to the mountain went. Great would have been the Jotun race, had they all lived; and not a man left in Midgard. What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard? ”