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 Thou steerer of ships, than when still thou sittest." ... ...

The lord of the goats bade the ape-begotten Farther to steer the steed of the rollers; But the giant said that his will, forsooth, Longer to row was little enough.

Two whales on his hook did the mighty Hymir Soon pull up on a single cast; In the stern the kinsman of Othin sat, And Veur with cunning his cast prepared.

The warder of men, the worm's destroyer, Fixed on his hook the head of the ox; There gaped at the bait the foe of the gods, The girdler of all the earth beneath.