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Thor spake: "Great trouble, methinks, would it be to come to thee, To wade the waters across,  and wet my middle; Weakling, well shall I pay  thy mocking words, if across the sound I come."

Harbarth spake: "Here shall I stand and await thee here; Thou hast found since Hrungnir died  no fiercer man."

Thor spake: "Fain art thou to tell how with Hrungnir I fought, The haughty giant,  whose head of stone was made; And yet I felled him,  and stretched him before me. What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?"

Harbarth spake: "