Can to all metals various forms impart:
By Odin’s order they were strict enjoin’d
To forge a fetter, Fenris wolf to bind,
Subtle and slight, but strong his force to quell,
And proved and charm’d with many a mystic spell.
For iron nought avail’d, nor copper chain
The dangerous monster’s fury to restrain;
For such, like singed threads, he burst in twain.
But as o’er Bifrost bridge he pass’d along,
Thus Skirnir mused: “Methinks, it were not wrong,