Thor.

25.  Unequally thou wouldst divide the folk among the AEsir, if thou but hadst the power.

Harbard.

36.  Thor has strength over-much, but courage none; from cowardice and fear, thou wast crammed into a glove, and hardly thoughtest thou wast Thor.  Thou durst not then, through thy terror, either sneeze or cough, lest Fialar it might hear.

Thor.

27.  Harbard, thou wretch!  I would strike thee dead, could I but stretch my arm across the sound.

Harbard.

28.  Why wouldst thou stretch thy arm across the sound, when there is altogether no offence?  But what didst thou, Thor?

Thor.

39.  In the east I was, and a river I defended, when the sons of Svarang me assailed, and with stones pelted me, though in their success they little joyed:  they were the first to sue for peace.  What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard?

Harbard.

30.  I was in the east, and with a certain lass held converse; with that fair I dallied, and long meetings had.  I that gold-bright one delighted; the game amused her.

Thor.

31.  Then you had kind damsels there?

Harbard.

32.  Of thy aid I had need, Thor! in retaining that maiden lily-fair.

Thor.

33.  I would have given it thee, if I had had the opportunity.

Harbard.

34.  I would have trusted thee, my confidence if thou hadst not betrayed it.

Thor.

35.  I am not such a heel-chafer as an old leather shoe in spring.

Harbard.

36.  What meanwhile didst thou, Thor?

Thor.

37.  The Berserkers’ brides I on Laesso cudgeled; they the worst had perpetrated, the whole people, had seduced.

Harbard.

38.  Dastardly didst thou act, Thor! when thou didst cudgel women.

Thor.

39.  She-wolves they were, and scarcely women.  They crushed my ship, which with props I had secured, with iron clubs threatened me, and drove away Thialfi.  What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard?

Harbard.

40.  I in the army was, which was hither sent, war-banners to raise, lances to redden.

Thor.

41.  Of that thou now wilt speak, as thou wentest forth us hard terms to offer.

Harbard.

42.  That shall be indemnified by a hand-ring, such as arbitrators give, who wish to reconcile us.

Thor.

43.  Where didst thou learn words than which I never heard more irritating?

Harbard.

44.  From men I learned them, from ancient men, whose home is in the woods.

Thor.

45.  Thou givest certainly a good name to grave-mounds, when thou callest them, homes in the woods.