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her Wife of Bragi, and Keeper of the Apples; and the apples should be called Age-Elixir of the Æsir. Idunn is also called Spoil of the Giant Thjazi, according to the tale that has been told before, how he took her away from the Æsir. Thjódólfr of Hvin composed verses after that tale in the Haustlöng:

How shall I make voice-payment

Meetly for the shield-bridge

. . . . . . .

Of the war-wall Thórleifr gave me?

I survey the truceless faring

Of the three gods strife-foremost,

And Thjatsi's, on the shining

Cheek of the shield of battle.

The Spoiler of the Lady

Swiftly flew with tumult

To meet the high god-rulers

Long hence in eagle-plumage;

The erne in old days lighted

Where the Æsir meat were bearing

To the fire-pit; the Giant

Of the rocks was called no faint-heart.

The skilful god-deceiver

To the gods proved a stern sharer

Of bones: the high Instructor

Of Æsir, helmet-hooded,

Saw some power checked the seething;

The sea-mew, very crafty,

Spake from the ancient tree-trunk;

Loki was ill-willed toward him.