Fjölsvinnsmál
Translated by Henry Adams Bellows
The Lay of Fjolsvith, in Henry Adams Bellows’s translation.
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17. Before the house he beheld one coming To the home of the giants high.
Svipdag spake: “What giant is here, in front of the house, And around him fires are flaming?”
Fjolsvith spake: 18. “What seekest thou here? for what is thy search? What, friendless one, fain wouldst thou know? By the ways so wet must thou wander hence, For, weakling, no home hast thou here.”
Svipdag spake: 19. “What giant is here, in front of the house, To the wayfarer welcome denying?”
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