To guard his life and health, an apple gave.
Lo! thus prepared, he cleaves the liquid sky
Charged with a mission from Alfader high
For on that very night was Hermod flown
(Odin’s own courier) to a distant zone;
There to avenge by punishment sublime,
O Freya! thy perfidious consort’s crime.
Charged with his errand now must Skirnir ride
To Dovre’s caverns, where the dwarfs reside;
Those smiths ingenious, who with wondrous art