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Thor spake: "The way now show me, since thou takest me not o'er the water."

Harbarth spake: "To refuse it is little, to fare it is long; A while to the stock, and a while to the stone; Then the road to thy left, till Verland thou reachest; And there shall Fjorgyn her son Thor find, And the road of her children she shows him to Othin's realm."

Thor spake: "May I come so far in a day?"

Harbarth spake: "With toil and trouble perchance, While the sun still shines, or so I think."

Thor spake: "Short now shall be our speech, for thou speakest in mockery only;