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 :And the Hoard-Diminisher hearkened
 * To Thorsteinn; true my heart is
 * To the Lord of the Wolf of Billows
 * In the baleful Wrath-Wand's conflict.

And Ox also. The ship is called Snowshoe, or Wagon, or Wain. Thus sang Eyjólfr the Valiant Skald:


 * Late in the day the young Earl
 * In the Snowshoe of Landless Waters
 * Fared with equal following
 * To meet the fearless chieftain.

Thus sang Styrkárr Oddason:


 * Högni's host drove the Wagons
 * Of Rollers o'er Heiti's snow-Heaps,
 * Angrily pursuing
 * The great Giver of Flood-Embers.

And as Thorbjörn sang:


 * The Freighter of Wave-Crests' Sea-Wain
 * Was in the font of christening,
 * Hoard-Scatterer, who was given
 * The White Christ's highest favor.

LI. "How should one periphrase Christ? Thus: by calling Him Fashioner of Heaven and Earth, of Angels, and of the Sun; Governor of the World and of the Heavenly Kingdom and of Jerusalem and Jordan and the Land of the Greeks; Counsellor of the Apostles and of the Saints. Ancient skalds have written of Him in metaphors of Urdr's Well and Rome; as Eilífr Gudrúnarson sang: