“I’ll lead thee strait to Freya’s grove,

Where every female loves to dwell:

Better wilt thou in sports of love,

Than in the toils of war excel.[38]

Good will and spirit too thou hast,

But oft thy vigour fails at proof:

For thy soft-fibred hand ’twere best

To hold the harp, or weave the woof.”

Thereat to Freya’s blest abode

He march’d, with Roska by his side;