"I have Hlorridi's
hammer hidden
eight rasts
beneath the earth;
it shall no man
get again,
unless he bring me
Freyja to wife."
Flew then Loki--
the plumage rattled--
until he came beyond
the Joetun's dwellings,
and came within
the AEsir's courts;
there he met Thor,
in the middle court,
who these words
first of all uttered:--
"Hast thou had success,
as well as labor?
Tell me from the air
the long tidings.
Oft of him who sits
are the tales defective,
and he who lies down
utters falsehood."