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Once on a time the two OEsir, Thor, the Thunder god, and his brother Lopt, attended by a servant, determined to go eastward to Jotunheim, the land of the giants, in search of adventures. Crossing over a great water, they came to a desolate plain, at whose further end, tossing and waving in the wind, rose the tree tops of a great forest.
"'Then, said Lopt, 'I understand an art of which I am prepared to give proof, and that is, that no one here can dispose of his food as I can. Then answered Utgard Loke: 'Truly this IS an art, if thou canst achieve it; which we will now see. He called from the bench a man named Loge to contend with Lopt. They set a trough in the middle of the hall, filled with meat.
His lifted sword had lopt the gory head, But Rustem, quick, with crafty ardour said: "One moment, hold! what, are our laws unknown? A Chief may fight till he is twice o'erthrown; The second fall, his recreant blood is spilt, These are our laws, avoid the menaced guilt."
And the Moor who had slain King Don Alfonso fell into Ferrando's power, and the King took vengeance and punished him in all the parts which had offended; he cut off the foot which had prest down the Armatost, and lopt off the hands which had held the bow and fitted the quarrel, and plucked out the eyes which had taken the mark; and the living trunk was then set up as a butt for the archers.
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