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Rh his cellar. His daughter, Gunlad, guarded it night and day.

Odin wished to drink the mead. So ho made a journey to Jotunheim.

There he saw nine thralls mowing in a field. He offered to whet their scythes. When they found what a keen edge the scythes had, they wanted to buy the whetstone.

Odin threw it up and said that whoever caught it might keep it. In trying to catch the whetstone, the nine thralls killed one another with their scythes.

Then Odin went to the master of the thralls and asked for work. The giant hired Odin because he was so much in need of workmen.

This giant, whose name was Bauge, was Suttung's brother. Odin said he would work all summer for one draught of the song mead.

Bauge told Odin to begin the work and he would see about the mead. When he found that Bolverk, as Odin called himself, could do the work of the nine thralls, he wished to keep him. But Suttung would not give one drop of the mead.

One day when he was away, Bauge and Odin went to his house. They took with them an auger that Odin had brought from Asgard.

Odin bade Bauge bore a hole through the wall