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| | Jotunbok: Gunnlod's Tale |
 | | Suttung was displeased, but he gave orders that Bragi should be allowed to come and go as he wished, and Gunnlod herself bade Bragi to leave her and go into the household now and then, for she worried for her son, growing up in a sunless room underground. |
 | | Suttung longed to kill the stranger, whose identity he knew very well, but since the latter was the father of his own grandson, the lord of Hnitbjorg felt that he must refrain, since he loved Bragi well and did not wish to upset him. |
 | | Suttung listened, and for the first time he understood that his daughter had known all along what he had never realized -- that love is precious in itself, and that it is no less precious for being impermanent, and that its loss, while painful, is no cause to deny it. |
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