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PROSE EDDA
He called the shield Wheel of Hildr, and the ring the Nave of the Wheel.
Ring-Earth, as Hallvardr sang:
- The Chief of ranks of Combat
- Sees the red-gleaming Ring-Earth
- Fly in two parts; the white disk,
- The pictured, bursts in sunder.
It is also sung:
- A ring befits the shield best;
- Arrows befit the bow.
A sword is Odin's Fire, as Kormákr sang:
- The fight swelled, when the Warrior,
- The Wolf's blithe Feeder, in tumult
- Fared with Odin's ringing Fire-Flame;
- Urdr came forth from the Well.
Fire of the Helm, as Úlfr Uggason sang:
- The very mighty Maiden
- Of the Mountain made the Sea-Horse
- Roll forward, but the Champions
- Of Odin's Helm-Fire felled her Wolf-Steed.
Fire of the Birnie, as Glúmr Geirason sang:
- At that the Land-Protector
- Let the Birnie's Streaming Fire whine,
- Hone-whetted, he who warded
- Him strongly 'gainst the warriors.
