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 :The king most gift-gracious
 * His guardsmen enriched
 * With Fenja's Labor,
 * With Fáfnir's Midgard,
 * Glasir's bright Needles,
 * Grani's fair Burden,
 * Draupnir's dear dripping,
 * Down of Grafvitnir.


 * The free-handed Lord gave,
 * The heroes accepted,
 * Sif's firm-grown tresses,
 * Ice of the bow-force,
 * Otter-gild unwilling,
 * Weeping of Mardöll,
 * Fire-flame of Órun,
 * Idi's fine Speeches.


 * The warrior rejoiced;
 * We walked in fair garments,
 * In Thjazi's counsels
 * The people's host-countless,
 * In the Rhine's red metal,
 * Wrangling of Niflungs,
 * The leader war-daring,
 * Warded Baldr not.

XLV. Gold is metaphorically termed Fire of the Hand, or of the Limb, or of the Leg, because it is red; but silver is called Snow, or Ice, or Hoar-Frost, because it is white. In like manner, gold or silver may be periphrased in metaphors of purse, or crucible, or lather, and both silver and gold may be called Hand-Stone, or Necklace, of any man who was