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 As Thjódólfr sang:


 * The Spoiler of the Lady
 * Swiftly flew with tumult
 * To meet the high God-Rulers,
 * Long hence, in Old One's plumage.

And as stands here:


 * With skill will I rehearse
 * Of the Storm-Shearer my verse.

And again as Skúli sang:


 * Early and late with sobbing
 * I wake, where well is sated
 * The hawk of the Cock's blood-ocean:
 * Then the bard heareth good tidings.

LX. "What are the names of the Sea? It is called Ocean, Main, Wintry, Lee, Deep, Way, Weir, Salt, Lake, Furtherer. As Arnórr sang, and as we have written above:


 * Let men hear how the Earls' King,
 * Hardy of mind, the Sea sought;
 * The overwhelming Ruler
 * Failed not to resist the Main.

Here it is named Sea, and Main also.

"Ocean, as Hornklofi sang: