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Lokasenna

He took the horn, and drank therefrom:

54.[1] "Alone thou wert  if truly thou wouldst
 All men so shyly shun;
But one do I know  full well, methinks,
 Who had thee from Hlorrithi's arms,—
 (Loki the crafty in lies.)"

  Beyla spake:
55.[2] "The mountains shake,  and surely I think
 From his home comes Hlorrithi now;
He will silence the man  who is slandering here
 Together both gods and men."

  Loki spake:
56. "Be silent, Beyla!  thou art Byggvir's wife,
 And deep art thou steeped in sin;
A greater shame  to the gods came ne'er,
 Befouled thou art with thy filth."

Then came Thor forth, and spake:

57.[3] "Unmanly one, cease,  or the mighty hammer,
 Mjollnir, shall close thy mouth;

    from the preceding prose, and a few editors have, obviously in error, attributed the speech to Beyla.

  1. ↑ Hlorrithi: Thor. Line 5 is probably spurious.
  2. ↑ Beyla: Freyr's servant, wife of Byggvir; cf. introductory prose and note.
  3. ↑ Mjollnir: concerning Thor's famous hammer see particularly Thrymskvitha, 1 and note. Shoulder-cliff: head; concerning

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