"Skin-faxi is the skyey steed Who bears aloft the smiling day To all the regions of mankind: His the ever-shining mane. * * * Hrim-faxi is the sable steed, From the east who brings the night, Fraught with showering joys of love As he champs the foamy bit, Drops of dew are scattered round To adorn the vales of earth."
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From the Poetic Edda ('), as translated by W. Taylor in H. W. Longfellow, The Poets and Poetry of Europe, 2nd ed. (1870), p. 41
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