But sudden, springing from a nook,
Fenris the wolf, with eye of flame,
Unwelcome guest, to the banquet came:
He paced around with fiendish grin,
Snapping at every Asa’s chin:
And oft with unremitting spite
The Disar’s legs he strove to bite.
But Odin, weary of this bane,
Possessing now the mystic chain
Wherewith to bind the hateful beast,