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Of the sons of King Hraudung

King Hraudung had two sons: one was named Agnar, the other Geirrod. Agnar had ten winters, and Geirrod eight. One day they went together in a boat with their tackle to fish. The wind carried them out to sea. In the darkness of the night, their boat crashed on the shore, they went to it and met an old man there. They overwintered with him. The old woman followed Agnar, and the old man followed Geirrod. In the spring the old man gave them a boat. And when the old man and the old woman accompanied them to the shore, the old man spoke face to face with Geirrod. They had a fair wind, and they sailed to the pier of their father. Geirrod was at the bow of the boat; he ran ashore, pushed the boat away, and said, "Sail where the trolls will take you!" The boat was washed out to sea, and Geirrod went to his father's court. He was well received; his father had already died. Geirrod was chosen king and became a famous husband.

Odin and Frigga once sat on the throne of Hlidskjalf and looked out over all the worlds. One said: "Do you see Agnar, your pet, who gave birth to children with a giantess in a cave? And Geirrod, my pet, is a king and rules the country!" Frigga says: "He is so stingy with food that he starves his guests if he thinks there are too many of them." One says it's the biggest lie and they're betting on it.

Frigga sent her servant Fulla to Geirrod. She ordered him to be warned against the charms of the sorcerer who came to his lands, and said that he was easily recognized by the fact that not a single dog, no matter how evil it was, would attack him. That Geirröd was stingy with food was indeed the greatest lie. But the man, at whom the dogs did not bark, he nevertheless ordered to seize. The stranger was in a blue cloak and called himself Grimnir. He said nothing more about himself, no matter how he was questioned. The king ordered that he be tortured to get an answer from him and put him between two fires. So he stayed for eight nights.

King Geirrod had a son ten winters old, and he was called Agnar in honor of his father's brother. Agnar went up to Grimnir, gave him a drink from a full horn, and said that the king was doing badly in torturing him, an innocent one. Grimnir drank. The fire at this time crept so close to Grimnir that his cloak smoldered. He said: