His robe around his limbs he throws:

Vingolf he leaves with gloomy mind,

But Asa-Thor remains behind.

He sits with hand beneath his chin,

And eyes the wolf with looks of spleen,

But both keep silence: in the hall

The waiting-damsels enter all,

To quench the lights; in darkness now

The god must sit with wrinkled brow:

Yet still he fix’d with looks of ire