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Thor spake: "Thou didst repay good gifts with evil mind."

Harbarth spake: "The oak must have what it shaves from another; In such things each for himself. What, Thor, didst thou the while?"

Thor spake: "Eastward I fared, of the giants I felled Their ill-working women  who went to the mountain; And large were the giants' throng  if all were alive; No men would there be  in Mithgarth more. What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?"

Harbarth spake: "In Valland I was, and wars I raised, Princes I angered,  and peace brought never; The noble who fall  in the fight hath Othin, And Thor hath the race of the thralls."