What means that fetter in thy hand?
Thou Asa with the golden tooth!
Wouldst bind me like a dog, forsooth?”
“He, who hath power himself to free,
Cannot be fetter’d easily:
The slave is bound; but in the hand
Of strength an honourable band
Becomes the fetter:” (thus replied
Heimdaller.) “And since ’tis thy pride
The strongest iron bars to gnaw