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Skirnir spake: "Speak prithee, Freyr, foremost of the gods, For now I fain would know; Why sittest thou here  in the wide halls, Days long, my prince, alone?"

Freyr spake: "How shall I tell thee, thou hero young, Of all my grief so great? Though every day  the elfbeam dawns, It lights my longing never."

Skirnir spake: "Thy longings, methinks, are not so large That thou mayst not tell them to me; Since in days of yore  we were young together, We two might each other trust."

Freyr spake: "From Gymir's house I beheld go forth A maiden dear to me; Her arms glittered,  and from their gleam Shone all the sea and sky.