In two, as if ’twere so much straw,

Permit me, to afford delight

To Odin and the Disar bright,

To bind thee with this brittle chain,

Which thou canst surely bite in twain.”

And now the wolf began to look

Around him for his father Lok;

But all in vain; no Lok was there;

The hateful beast then scowl’d with fear,

And sunk his tail, and show’d his tooth,