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Poetic Edda

Lest evil should Loki  speak aloud
 Here within Ægir's hall."

Then Vithar arose and poured drink for Loki; but before he drank he spoke to the gods:

11. "Hail to you, gods!  ye goddesses, hail!
 Hail to the holy throng!
Save for the god  who yonder sits,
 Bragi there on the bench."

  Bragi spake:
12. "A horse and a sword  from my hoard will I give,
 And a ring gives Bragi to boot,
That hatred thou makst not  among the gods;
 So rouse not the great ones to wrath."

  Loki spake:
13.[1] "In horses and rings  thou shalt never be rich,
 Bragi, but both shalt thou lack;
Of the gods and elves  here together met
 Least brave in battle art thou,
 (And shyest thou art of the shot.)"

  Bragi spake:
14.[2] "Now were I without  as I am within,

    enough through the context. Vithar: cf. note on introductory prose. The wolf's father: Loki; cf. Voluspo, 39 and note.

  1. ↑ Sijmons makes one line of lines 4-5 by cutting out a part of each; Finnur Jonsson rejects 5 as spurious.
  2. ↑ The text of line 4 is somewhat obscure, and has been

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