LOKE.
One day Loke was wandering about idly as he often did. He came near Thor's house, which had five hundred and forty rooms.
By the window sat Sif, Thor's wife, asleep. Loke thought it would be a good joke to cut off her beautiful hair and make Thor angry. So he crept in softly and cut off her hair close to her head without wakening her.
When Thor came home and found out what had been done, he knew at once who had done it
Rushing out, he overtook Loke, and threatened to crush him to atoms. To save his life Loke swore to get the elves to make hair of gold for Sif, that would grow like real hair.
Loke knew he had better do as he had promised, so he went deep down into the earth to Alfheim. When he came near he looked through a crevice in the ground, and there were the elves at work. He could see them by the. light of the forge fires.
Some were running about with aprons on and
