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VAFTHRUDNIS.
Tell, mighty Ganrade! if you seek
Here beneath heaven’s cope to speak,
What horse is that, who o’er the sight
Of Gods, drags on the veil of night?

GANRADE.
Hrimfaxi^[1] o’er the fight
Of Gods, drags on the veil of night:
From his iron bits distil
Each morning dew on vale and hill.

VAFTHRUDNIS.
Tell, mighty Ganrade! if you seek
Here beneath heaven’s cope to speak;
Among the sons of mortal birth
What river parts the Gods and Earth?

1. Hrimfaxi, by which is understood Hesperus.