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Poetic Edda

  Thor spake:
43. "Where foundest thou  so foul and scornful a speech?
More foul a speech  I never before have heard."

  Harbarth spake:
44.[1] "I learned it from men,  the men so old,
Who dwell in the hills of home."

  Thor spake:
45. "A name full good  to heaps of stones thou givest
When thou callest them hills of home."

  Harbarth spake:
46. "Of such things speak I so."

  Thor spake:
47. "Ill for thee comes  thy keenness of tongue,
If the water I choose to wade;
Louder, I ween,  than a wolf thou cryest,
If a blow of my hammer thou hast."

  Harbarth spake:
48.[2] "Sif has a lover at home,  and him shouldst thou meet;
More fitting it were  on him to put forth thy strength."

  1. ↑ Othin refers to the dead, from whom he seeks information through his magic power.
  2. ↑ Sif: Thor's wife, the lover being presumably Loki; cf. Lokasenna, 54.

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