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Lokasenna

  Frigg spake:
27.[1] "If a son like Baldr  were by me now,
 Here within Ægir's hall,
From the sons of the gods  thou shouldst go not forth
 Till thy fierceness in fight were tried."

  Loki spake:
28. "Thou wilt then, Frigg,  that further I tell
 Of the ill that now I know;
Mine is the blame  that Baldr no more
 Thou seest ride home to the hall."

  Freyja spake:
29.[2] "Mad art thou, Loki,  that known thou makest
 The wrong and shame thou hast wrought;
The fate of all  does Frigg know well,
 Though herself she says it not."

  Loki spake:
30.[3] "Be silent, Freyja!  for fully I know thee,
 Sinless thou art not thyself;

  1. ↑ On the death of Baldr, slain through Loki's cunning by the blind Hoth, cf. Voluspo, 32 and note.
  2. ↑ Freyja: daughter of Njorth and sister of Freyr; cf. note on introductory prose. Snorri, in speaking of Frigg's knowledge of the future, makes a stanza out of Lokasenna, 21, 1; 47, 2; 29, 3-4, thus: "Mad art thou, Loki,  and little of wit, / Why, Loki, leavst thou this not? / The fate of all  does Frigg know well, / Though herself she says it not."
  3. ↑ According to Snorri, Freyja was a model of fidelity to her husband, Oth.

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