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PROSE EDDA
- The Arm-Burden then of Sigyn,
- Whom all the gods in bonds see,
- Firmly forthwith was fastened
- To the Fosterer of Skadi;
- To Jötunheim's Strong Dweller
- The pole stuck, and the fingers
- Of Loki too, companion
- Of Hœnir, clung to the pole's end.
- The Bird of Blood flew upward
- (Blithesome in his quarry)
- A long way off with Loki,
- The lither God, that almost
- Wolf's Sire was rent asunder;
- Thor's friend must sue for mercy,
- Such peace as he might purchase
- To pray: nigh slain was Loptr.
- Then Hymir's Kinsman ordered
- The crafty god, pain-maddened,
- To wile to him the Maiden
- Who warded the Æsir's age-cure;
- Ere long the necklace-robber,
- Brísinga's thief, lured slyly
- The Dame of Brunnakr's brooklet
- Into the Base One's dwelling.
- At that the steep slope-dwellers
- No sorrow felt; then Idunn
- Was from the south, by giants
- New-stolen, come among them.
- All Ingvi-Freyr's high kindred,
- Hoary and old, to council
