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 Five full winters with Fjolvar was I, And dwelt in the isle  that is Algrön called; There could we fight, and fell the slain, Much could we seek, and maids could master."

Thor spake: "How won ye success with your women?"

Harbarth spake: "Lively women we had, if they wise for us were; Wise were the women we had,  if they kind for us were; For ropes of sand  they would seek to wind, And the bottom to dig  from the deepest dale. Wiser than all  in counsel I was, And there I slept  by the sisters seven, And joy full great  did I get from each. What, Thor, didst thou the while?"