Thor.

9.  I my name will tell, (although I am an outlaw) and all my kin:  I am Odin’s son, Meili’s brother, and Magni’s sire, the gods’ mighty leader:  With Thor thou here mayest speak.  I will now ask how thou art called.

Harbard.

10.  I am Harbard called; seldom I my name conceal.

Thor.

11.  Why shouldst thou thy name conceal, unless thou crime hast perpetrated?

Harbard.

12.  Yet, though I may crime have perpetrated, I will nathless guard my life against such as thou art; unless I death-doomed am.

Thor.

13.  It seems to me a foul annoyance to wade across the strait to thee, and wet my garments:  but I will pay thee, mannikin! for thy sharp speeches, if o’er the sound I come.

Harbard.

14.  Here will I stand, and here await thee.  Thou wilt have found no stouter one since Hrungnir’s death.

Thor.

15.  Thou now remindest me how I with Hrungnir fought, that stout-hearted Jotun, whose head was all of stone; yet I made him fall, and sink before me.  What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard?

Harbard.

16.  I was with Fiolvari five winters through, in the isle which Algron hight.  There we could fight, and slaughter make, many perils prove, indulge in love.

Thor.

17.  How did your women prove towards you?

Harbard.

18.  Sprightly women we had, had they but been meek; shrewd ones we had, had they but been kind.  Of sand a rope they twisted, and from the deep valley dug the earth:  to them all I alone was superior in cunning.  I rested with the sisters seven, and their love and pleasures shared.  What meanwhile didst thou, Thor?

Thor.

19.  I slew Thiassi, that stout-hearted Jotun:  up I cast the eyes of Allvaldi’s son into the heaven serene:  they are signs the greatest of my deeds.  What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard?

Harbard.

20.  Great seductive arts I used against the riders of the night,[36] when from their husbands I enticed them.  A mighty Jotun I believed Hlebard to be:  a magic wand he gave me, but from his wits I charmed him.

Thor.

21.  With evil mind then thou didst good gifts requite Harbard.

22.  One tree gets that which, is from another scraped:  each one in such case is for self.  What meanwhile didst thou, Thor?

Thor.

23.  In the east I was, and slew the Jotun brides, crafty in evil, as they to the mountain went.  Great would have been the Jotun race, had they all lived; and not a man left in Midgard.  What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard?

Harbard.

24.  I was in Valland, and followed warfare; princes I excited, but never reconciled.  Odin has all the jarls that in conflict fall; but Thor the race of thralls.