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  Harbarth spake:28. "Wherefore reach over the sound,  since strife we have none?What, Thor, didst thou do then?"
  Thor spake:29.[1] "Eastward I was,  and the river I guarded well,Where the sons of Svarang  sought me there;Stones did they hurl;  small joy did they have of winning;Before me there  to ask for peace did they fare.What, Harbarth, didst thou the while?"
  Harbarth spake:30.[2] "Eastward I was,  and spake with a certain one,I played with the linen-white maid,  and met her by stealth;I gladdened the gold-decked one,  and she granted me joy."
  Thor spake:31. "Full fair was thy woman-finding."
  1. ↑ The river: probably Ifing, which flows between the land of the gods and that of the giants; cf. Vafthruthnismol, 16. Sons of Svarang: presumably the giants; Svarang is not elsewhere mentioned in the poems, nor is there any other account of Thor's defense of the passage.
  2. ↑ Othin's adventure of this sort were too numerous to make it possible to identify this particular person. By stealth: so the Arnamagnæan Codes; Regius, followed by several editors, has "long meeting with her."

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