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 after having subdued an extensive kingdom in Saxland lie set his sons to defend the country. He himself v^ent northward to the sea, and took up his abode in an island which is called Odinse (see note below), in Funen. Then he sent Gefjun across the sound to the north to discover new countries, and she came to King Gylfe, who gave her a ploughland. Then she went to Jotunheim and bore four sons to a giant, and transformed them into a yoke of oxen, and yoked them to a plough and broke out the land into the ocean, right opposite to Odinse, which was called Seeland, where she afterward settled and dwelt. Skjold, a son of Odin, married her, and they dwelt at Leidre. Where the ploughed land was, is a lake or sea called Laage. In the Swedish land the fjords of Laage correspond to the nesses of Seeland. Brage the old sings thus of it:

Gefjun glad Drew from Gylfe The excellent land, Denmark's increase, So that it reeked From the running beasts. Four heads and eight eyes Bore the oxen. As they went before the wide Robbed land of the grassy isle.

Now when Odin heard that things were in a prosperous condition in the land to the east beside Gylfe,