“Man is periphrased in tree-metaphors, as we have written before ; he is called Rowan, or Tester, of Weapons, or of Combats, of Expeditions and of Deeds, of Ships, and of all that which he wields and tests; thus sang Clfr Uggason : But the flashing-eyed stiff Edge-Rope Of the Earth stared past the gunwale At the Rowan-Tree of the people Of Stone, the Giant-Tester, Tree and Beam, as Kormakr sang: The Beam of the murdering Sword-Twig Is…”

— The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Skáldskaparmál XLVI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan