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Downward the Fells of Fullness

Fall on the Bear of Tackle:

Now forward Winterling, stirreth,

The ship, on Glammi's sea-path.

Comber,^[1] as here:

The Comber fell headlong o'er me;

The Main called me home unto it:

I accepted not the Sea's bidding.

Breaker, as Óttarr sang:

In burst the ship-sides thin;

Rushed the Breaker downward; flushed

Stood the wind, bane of the wood;

Men endured wild tempest then.

Wave, as Bragi sang:

The Giver of the Wave's Coals,

Who cut Thor's slender tackle,

The Line of the Land of Sea-Mews,

Loved not to fight the wroth sea.

Sound, as Einarr sang:

I sheared the Sound

From Hrund south-bound;

My hand was gold-wound

When the Giver I found.

1. So Cl.-Vig. Literally, the word means ominous, foreboder.