“Nay!” answered Asa Lok, “a weight

Far greater he can lift at need.

“The hammer that our chief doth bear,

Alone outweighs one hundred pound;

But mark my words, while I declare

A feat, for which he’s much renown’d:

Once into lovely Freya’s hall

He enter’d, while she sleeping lay;

He seiz’d the goddess, couch and all,

And bore them in his arms away.