Re-echoed wide the solemn Nornor’s strain.
“What other god but Thor can solve this spell?
Juggler of time is Lok, we all agree;
And Thor alone can Lok subdue—tis well—
The Queen of Love preserves the prison key,
’Tis said, that Queen alone can set Iduna free.
These words were ponder’d oft the gods among;
Thor seized their import; red as blood his cheek
With anger, from his bench he quickly sprung,
And grasp’d the pallid Loptur by the neck: