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Thrymskvitha

He shook his beard,  his hair was bristling,
As the son of Jorth  about him sought.

2.[1] Hear now the speech  that first he spake:
"Harken, Loki,  and heed my words,
Nowhere on earth  is it known to man,
Nor in heaven above:  our hammer is stolen."

3.[2] To the dwelling fair  of Freyja went they,
Hear now the speech  that first he spake:
"Wilt thou, Freyja,  thy feather-dress lend me,
That so my hammer  I may seek?"

  Freyja spake:
4.[3] "Thine should it be  though of silver bright,
And I would give it  though 'twere of gold."
Then Loki flew,  and the feather-dress whirred,
Till he left behind him  the home of the gods,
And reached at last  the realm of the giants.

  1. ↑ Loki: cf. Lokasenna, passim.
  2. ↑ Freyja: Njorth's daughter, and sister of Freyr; cf. Lokasenna, introductory prose and note, also Skirnismol, introductory prose. Freyja's house was Sessrymnir ("Rich in Seats") built in Folkvang ("Field of the Folk"); cf. Grimnismol, 14. Feather-dress: this flying equipment of Freyja's is also used in the story of Thjazi, wherein Loki again borrows the "hawk's dress" of Freyja, this time to rescue Ithun; cf. Harbarthsljoth, 19 and note.
  3. ↑ The manuscript and most editions have lines 1-2 in inverse order. Several editors assume a lacuna before line 1, making a stanza out of the two conjectural lines (Bugge actually supplies them) and lines 1-2 of stanza 4. Thus they either make a separate stanza out of lines 3-5 or unite them in a six-line stanza with 5. The manuscript punctuation and capitalization—not

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