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 Here the ship is called Winterling of the Stream: a bear cub is called a Winterling; and a bear is called Tusker; the Bear of the Stay is a ship.

The ship is also called Reindeer, and so Hallvardr sang, as we have written before; and Hart, as King Haraldr Sigurdarson sang:


 * By Sicily then widely
 * The Seam cut: we were stately;
 * The Sea-Hart glided swiftly
 * As we hoped beneath the heroes.

And Elk, as Einarr sang:


 * The ring's mild Peace-Dispenser,
 * The princely hero, may not
 * Long bide with thee, if something
 * Aid not; we boune the Flood's Elk.

And Otter, as Máni sang:


 * What, laggard carle with gray cheeks,
 * Canst do among keen warriors
 * On the Otter of the Sea-Waves?
 * For thy strength is ebbing from thee.

Wolf, as Refr sang: