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 He answered thus:


 * 'Skalds do call me
 * Vidurr's Shape-Smith,
 * Gautr's Gift-Finder,
 * Bard not faulty,
 * Yggr's Ale-Bearer,
 * Song's Arrayer,
 * Skilled Smith of Verse:
 * What is the Skald but this?'

And as Kormákr sang:


 * I make more Glorifying
 * By far o'er Hákon's great son:
 * I pay him the song-atonement
 * Of the gods. In his wain Thor sitteth.

And as Thórdr Kolbeinsson sang:


 * The Shield-Maple let many swift ships
 * And merchant-craft, and speedy
 * War-boats o'er the sea pour;
 * The skald's ready Song of Laud waxed.

Laud, as Úlfr Uggason sang:


 * Now the stream to the sea cometh;
 * But first the Laud I sang forth
 * Of the Messenger of Sword-Rain:
 * Thus I raise the praise of warriors.

Here poesy is called praise also.