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Harbarth spake: "Thy help did I need then, Thor, to hold the white maid fast."

Thor spake: "Gladly, had I been there, my help to thee had been given."

Harbarth spake: "I might have trusted thee then, didst thou not betray thy troth."

Thor spake: "No heel-biter am I, in truth, like an old leather shoe in spring."

Harbarth spoke: "What, Thor, didst thou the while?"

Thor spake: "In Hlesey the brides of the Berserkers slew I; Most evil they were,  and all they betrayed."