Sif will not recover a single hair,

Bald-headed for aye she’ll remain.

“If thou wilt forgive my frolic this bout,

(’Twas a sorry frolic, I own,)

Why then I swear by leek and by crout,[43]

By the moss on the Bauta-stone,[44]

“By Odin’s[45] eye, and by Mimer’s fountain,

By thy hammer and golden car,

I’ll straight descend to the caves of the mountain,

To the dwarfs, who my vassals are.