“And for Sif a new head of hair I’ll bring

Of gold, before dawn of day;

She then will rival the youthful spring

All deck’d in her flow’rets gay.”

“Thou swear’st by my hammer, but that I’ve lost,”

Indignant the god replies;

“Which well thou know’st, in the ocean toss’d,

In the hands of Ran now lies.”

“Well, then, I’ll procure thee a hammer new,”

Says Lok, the deceiver sly,