Deep Jotun guile and giant raid;

And this most wily compact made:

Fair Freya, with the Moon and Sun,

As price the fortress being done.”

Valhalla (J.C. Jones).

Loki and Svadilfari

Dorothy Hardy

The unknown architect agreed to these seemingly impossible conditions, and immediately set to work, hauling ponderous blocks of stone by night, building during the day, and progressing so rapidly that the gods began to feel somewhat anxious. Ere long they noticed that more than half the labour was accomplished by the wonderful steed Svadilfare, and when they saw, near the end of winter, that the work was finished save only one portal, which they knew the architect could easily erect during the night:

“Horror and fear the gods beset;