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 * Gauta-Týr sent
 * To choose from kings
 * Who of Yngvi's kin
 * Should go with Odin
 * And be in Valhall.

Thus sang Úlfr Uggason:


 * Swiftly the Far-Famed rideth,
 * The Foretelling God, to the fire speeds,
 * To the wide pyre of his offspring;
 * Through my cheeks praise-songs are pouring.

Thus sang Thjódólfr of Hvin:


 * The slain lay there sand-strewing,
 * Spoil for the Single-Eyed
 * Dweller in Frigg's bosom;
 * In such deeds we rejoiced.

Hallfredr sang thus:


 * The doughty ship-possessor
 * With sharpened words and soothfast
 * Lures our land, the patient,
 * Barley-lockèd Wife of Thridi.

Here is an example of this metaphor, that in poesy the earth is called the Wife of Odin. Here is told what Eyvindr sang: