_Thor_.
11. Why shouldst thou thy name conceal, unless thou crime hast
perpetrated?
_Harbard_.
12. Yet, though I may crime have perpetrated, I will nathless guard
my life against such as thou art; unless I death-doomed am.
_Thor_.
13. It seems to me a foul annoyance to wade across the strait to
thee, and wet my garments: but I will pay thee, mannikin! for thy
sharp speeches, if o'er the sound I come.
_Harbard_.
14. Here will I stand, and here await thee. Thou wilt have found no
stouter one since Hrungnir's death.
_Thor_.
15. Thou now remindest me how I with Hrungnir fought, that
stout-hearted Jotun, whose head was all of stone; yet I made him fall,
and sink before me. What meanwhile didst thou, Harbard?
_Harbard_.
16. I was with Fiolvari five winters through, in the isle which
Algron hight. There we could fight, and slaughter make, many perils
prove, indulge in love.
_Thor_.