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 Frode! you were not

Wary enough, —

You friend of men, —

When maids you bought!

At their strength you looked,

And at their fair faces.

But you asked no questions

About their descent.

Hard was Hrungner

And his father;

Yet was Thjasse

Stronger than they,

And Ide and Orner,

Our friends, and

The mountain-giants' brothers,

Who fostered us two.

Not would Grotte have come

From the mountain gray,

Nor this hard stone

Out from the earth;

The maids of the mountain-giants

Would not thus be grinding

If we two knew

Nothing of the mill.

Through winters nine

Our strength increased.

While below the sod

We played together.

Great deeds were the maids

Able to perform;

Mountains they

From their places moved.

The stone we rolled

From the giants' dwelling,

So that all the earth

Did rock and quake.