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 To grow and well thrive: Word by word I sought out words, Fact by fact I sought out facts.

Runes thou wilt find And explained characters, Very large characters, Very potent characters, Which the great speaker depicted And the high powers formed And the powers' prince graved.

Odin among the asas, But among the elves, Daain; Odin as inventor of runes And Dvalin for the dwarfs; Aasvid for the giants runes risted, Some I myself risted.

Knowest thou how to rist them? Knowest thou how to expound them? Knowest thou how to depict them? Knowest thou how to prove them? Knowest thou how to pray? Knowest thou how to offer? Knowest thou how to send? Knowest thou how to consume?

'T is better not to pray Than too much offer; A gift ever looks to a return. 'T is better not to send Than too much consume. So Thund risted Before the origin of men, There he ascended Where he afterwards came.

Those songs I know Which the king's wife knows not.