THE POESY OF SKALDS
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Here the ship is called Winterling of the Stream: a bear cub is called a Winterling; and a bear is called Tusker; the Bear of the Stay is a ship.
The ship is also called Reindeer, and so Hallvardr sang, as we have written before; and Hart, as King Haraldr Sigurdarson sang:
- By Sicily then widely
- The Seam cut: we were stately;
- The Sea-Hart glided swiftly
- As we hoped beneath the heroes.
And Elk, as Einarr sang:
- The ring's mild Peace-Dispenser,
- The princely hero, may not
- Long bide with thee, if something
- Aid not; we boune the Flood's Elk.
And Otter, as Máni sang:
- What, laggard carle with gray cheeks,
- Canst do among keen warriors
- On the Otter of the Sea-Waves?
- For thy strength is ebbing from thee.
Wolf, as Refr sang:
