The Prose Edda · Part 3

Skáldskaparmál 30

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, 1916 · 1 paragraph · Read at the source

30.1"How should one periphrase summer? Thus: call it Son of Svásudr and Comfort of Serpents, and Growth of Men. Even as Egill Skallagrímsson sang: We shall wave our swords, O Dyer Of Wolf's Teeth, make them glitter: A deed we have for wreaking In the Comfort of Dale-Serpents.