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Skirnismol

  Skirnir spake:3. "Speak prithee, Freyr,  foremost of the gods, For now I fain would know;Why sittest thou here  in the wide halls, Days long, my prince, alone?"
  Freyr spake:4.[1] "How shall I tell thee,  thou hero young, Of all my grief so great?Though every day  the elfbeam dawns, It lights my longing never."
  Skirnir spake:5. "Thy longings, methinks,  are not so large That thou mayst not tell them to me;Since in days of yore  we were young together, We two might each other trust."
  Freyr spake:6.[2] "From Gymir's house  I beheld go forth A maiden dear to me;Her arms glittered,  and from their gleam Shone all the sea and sky.

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    "your son" (plural). The plural pronoun in the original involves a metrical error, which is corrected by the emendation.

  1. ↑ Elfbeam: the sun, so called because its rays were fatal to elves and dwarfs; cf. Alvissmol, 35
  2. ↑ Gymir: a mountain-giant, husband of Aurbotha, and father of Gerth, fairest among women. This is all Snorri tells of him in his paraphrase of the story.
  3. ↑ Snorri's paraphrase of the poem is sufficiently close so that his addition of another sentence to Freyr's speech makes it prob-

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