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 or corpses; and then their names are terms of the eagle or the raven. As Thjódólfr sang:


 * The Prince with Eagle's Barley
 * Doth feed the bloody moor-fowl:
 * The Hörd-King bears the sickle
 * Of Odin to the gory Swan's crop;
 * The Sater of the Vulture
 * Of the Eagle's Sea of corpses
 * Stakes each shoal to the southward
 * Which he wards, with the spear-point.

These are names of the raven: Crow, Huginn, Muninn, Bold of Mood, Yearly Flier, Year-Teller, Flesh-Boder.

Thus sang Einarr Tinkling-Scale:


 * With flesh the Host-Convoker
 * Filled the feathered ravens:
 * The raven, when spears were screaming,
 * With the she-wolf's prey was sated.

Thus sang Einarr Skúlason:


 * He who gluts the Gull of Hatred,
 * Our precious lord, could govern
 * The sword; the hurtful raven
 * Of Huginn's corpse-load eateth.

And as he sang further: