The vase he trusted to no dragon’s care,
But to his prudent daughter, Gunliod fair.
Then Odin first conceived the project bold
Of gaining mast’ry of that vase of gold:
He mounted on his courser, Sleipner hight,
And swift descending from Valhalla’s height,
Soon reach’d a field, where arm’d with scythes he view’d
Nine savage goblins of the Jotun brood,
Intent, by the broad streaming northern light,
To cut down all a peasant’s corn that night;