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... Fain to row on the sea was Veur, he said, If the giant bold would give him bait.

Hymir spake: "Go to the herd, if thou hast it in mind, Thou slayer of giants,  thy bait to seek; For there thou soon  mayst find, methinks, Bait from the oxen  easy to get."

Swift to the wood the hero went, Till before him an ox all black he found; From the beast the slayer of giants broke The fortress high of his double horns.

Hymir spake: "Thy works, methinks, are worse by far,