Accept it as a pledge of love.

’Twill serve thy visit to recall

To Utgard-Lok’s abode,

And cause, when drinking in thy hall,

The daily ebb and flood.”[36]

Then Thor: “In fraud and artifice

Thou art a most accomplish’d elf;

Methinks it would not be amiss

To try my strength upon thyself.

Thou dost deserve with broken head