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 :The maidens ground,
 * Their might they tested,
 * Young and fresh
 * In giant-frenzy:
 * The bin-poles trembled,
 * And burst the flour-box;
 * In sunder burst
 * The heavy boulder.


 * And the sturdy bride
 * Of Hill-Giants spake:
 * 'We have ground, O Fródi!
 * Soon we cease from grinding;
 * The women have labored
 * O'er long at the grist.'

Thus sang Einarr Skúlason:


 * I have heard that Fródi's hand-maids
 * Ground in the mill full gladly
 * The Serpent's Couch; with gold-meal
 * The king lets peace be broken:
 * The fair cheeks of my axe-head,
 * Fitted with maple, show forth
 * Fenja's Grist; exalted
 * Is the skald with the good king's riches.

So sang Egill:


 * Glad are full many men
 * In Fródi's meal.]

XLIII. "Why is gold called Kraki's Seed? In Denmark there was a king called Hrólfr Kraki: he was most renowned