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Thor spake: "Where foundest thou so foul and scornful a speech? More foul a speech  I never before have heard."

Harbarth spake: "I learned it from men, the men so old, Who dwell in the hills of home."

Thor spake: "A name full good to heaps of stones thou givest When thou callest them hills of home."

Harbarth spake: "Of such things speak I so."

Thor spake: "Ill for thee comes thy keenness of tongue, If the water I choose to wade; Louder, I ween,  than a wolf thou cryest, If a blow of my hammer thou hast."

Harbarth spake: "Sif has a lover at home, and him shouldst thou meet; More fitting it were  on him to put forth thy strength."