12. Either thou art death-doomed, or thou art a departed one. Speech
wilt thou ever lack with the good maid of Gymir.
_Skirnir_.
13. Better choices than to whine there are for him who is prepared
to die: for one day was my age decreed, and my whole life determined.
_Gerd_.
14. What is that sound of sounds, which I now sounding hear within
our dwelling? The earth is shaken, and with it all the house of Gymir
trembles.
_A serving-maid_.
15. A man is here without, dismounted from his horse's back: he lets
his steed browse on the grass.
_Gerd_.
16. Bid him enter into our hall, and drink of the bright mead;
although I fear it is my brother's slayer who waits without.
17. Who is this of the Alfar's, or of the AEsir's sons, or of the
wise Vanir's? Why art thou come alone, through the hostile fire, our
halls to visit?
_Skirnir_.
18. I am not of the Alfar's, nor of the AEsir's sons, nor of the wise
Vanir's; yet I am come alone, through the hostile fire, your halls to
visit.
19. Apples all-golden I have here eleven: these I will give thee,
Gerd, thy love to gain, that thou mayest say that Frev to thee lives
dearest.
_Gerd_.
20. The apples eleven I never will accept for any mortal's pleasure;
nor will I and Frey, while our lives last, live both together.
_Skirnir_.
21. The ring too I will give thee, which was burnt with the young
son of Odin.
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