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 :God of the blade of battle,
 * We bear through Hákon's life-days
 * The Seed of Fýri's valley
 * On our arms, where sits the falcon.

Even as Thjódólfr sang:


 * The king sows the bright seed-corn
 * Of knuckle-splendid gold rings,
 * With the crop of Yrsa's offspring,
 * In his company's glad hand-grasp;
 * The guileless 'Land-Director
 * With Kraki's gleaming barley
 * Sprinkles my arms, the flesh-grown
 * Seat of the hooded falcon.

XLIV. "It is said that the king called Hölgi, from whom Hálogaland is named, was the father of Thorgerdr Hölgabrúdr; sacrifice was made to both of them, and a cairn was raised over Hölgi: one layer of gold or silver (that was the sacrificial money), and another layer of mould and stones.

Thus sang Skúli Thorsteinsson:


 * When I reddened Reifnir's Roof-Bane,
 * The ravening sword, for wealth's sake
 * At Svöldr, I heaped with gold rings
 * Warlike Hölgi's cairn-thatch.

In the ancient Bjarkamál many terms for gold are told: it says there: