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 Sea-Kings; likewise Encircler of Islands; House of Sands and of Kelp and of Reefs; Land of Fishing-gear, of Sea-Fowls, and of Fair Wind. Even as Ormr Barrey's-Skald sang:


 * On the gravelly beach of good ships
 * Grates the Blood of Ymir.

As Refr sang:


 * The mild deer of the masthead beareth
 * O'er the murky water from the westward
 * Her wave-pressed bows; the land I look for
 * Before the beak; the Whale-Home shallows.

Even as Steinn sang:


 * When the fallow fell-wall's Whirlwinds
 * Wove o'er the waves full fiercely,
 * And Ægir's storm-glad daughters
 * Tore, of grim frost begotten.

And as Refr sang:


 * Gymir's wet-cold Spae-Wife
 * Wiles the Bear of Twisted Cables
 * Oft into Ægir's wide jaws,
 * Where the angry billow breaketh.

It is said here that Ægir and Gymir are both the same. And he sang further:


 * And the Sea-Peak's Sleipnir slitteth
 * The stormy breast rain-driven,
 * The wave, with red stain running
 * Out of white Rán's mouth.