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 XXXVI. "One may hear how gold is metaphorically called Fulla's Snood, in this verse which Eyvindr Skald-Despoiler wrought:


 * Fulla's shining Fillet,
 * The forehead's sun at rising,
 * Shone on the swelling shield-hill
 * For skalds all Hakon's life-days.

XXXVII. "Gold is called Freyja's Tears, as was said before. So sang Skúli Thorsteinsson:


 * Many a fearless swordsman
 * Received the Tears of Freyja
 * The more the morn when foemen
 * We murdered; we were present.

And as Einarr Skúlason sang:


 * Where, mounted 'twixt the carvings,
 * The Tear of Mardöll lieth,
 * We bear the axe shield-splitting,
 * Swollen with Serpent's lair-gold.

And here Einarr has further periphrased Freyja so as to call her Mother of Hnoss, or Wife of Ódr, as standeth below:


 * The shield, tempest's strong roof-ice,
 * With tear-gold is unminished,
 * Eye-rain of Ódr's Bed-Mate:
 * His age the King so useth.

And again thus: