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Harbarth spake: "Wherefore reach over the sound, since strife we have none? What, Thor, didst thou do then?"

Thor spake: "Eastward I was, and the river I guarded well, Where the sons of Svarang  sought me there; Stones did they hurl;  small joy did they have of winning; Before me there  to ask for peace did they fare. What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?"

Harbarth spake: "Eastward I was, and spake with a certain one, I played with the linen-white maid,  and met her by stealth; I gladdened the gold-decked one,  and she granted me joy."

Thor spake: "Full fair was thy woman-finding."