Then Frey: “Could I the maid’s consent obtain,
Yet fear I Odin, king of gods and men;
He would refuse his sanction.” “Why suppose
Said Skirnir, “Odin would thy views oppose?
To bind the marriage knot consent he gave
Whilom ’twixt Ægir, monarch of the wave,
And the perfidious harsh ill-favour’d Ran,
Who spreads her net to drown the race of man.
And did he not his sanction too accord
To bind fierce Skada with benignant Niord?