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 Thorn, as Arnórr sang:


 * He gathered, the young Wealth-Thorn,
 * Many great heaps of corpses
 * For the eagles, and his henchmen
 * Guided and helped the hero.

XLVII. "How should battle be periphrased? By calling it Storm of Weapons or of Sheltering Shields, or of Odin or the Valkyrs, or of Host-Kings; and Din and Clashing.

Thus sang Hornklofi:


 * The king hath held a Spear-Storm
 * With heroes, where the eagles
 * Screamed at the Din of Skögul;
 * The red wounds spat out blood.

Thus sang Eyvindr:


 * And that hero
 * At Háar's Tempest
 * Wore a sark
 * Of gray wolf-skin.

Thus sang Bersi:


 * In earlier days I seemed not
 * To Gunn's War-Bushes useful
 * In the Sleet of Hlökk, when younger
 * We were: so 't is said.