So much fish doth Freya eat?

So much beer? so much mead

Can she swallow? strange, indeed!

Who would not astonish’d be

Such a dainty dame to see

Drain each oft replenish’d bowl,

As ’twere but a thimble-full?”

But Lok, who as waiting-maid stood by the side

Of Thor, in excuse whisper’d Thrymur. “Thy bride

Eight nights without eating or drinking hath past,