Appendix
Thrymskvida.
1. Then Wing-Thor was angry when he awoke, and missed his hammer. He shook his beard, he tossed his hair, the son of Earth groped about for it.
2. And first of all he spoke these words: “Hear now, Loki, what I tell thee, a thing that no one in earth or heaven above has heard: the Asa has been robbed of his hammer!”
3. They went to the dwelling of fair Freyja, and these words he spoke first of all: “Wilt thou lend me, Freyja, thy feather dress, to see if I can find my hammer?”
4. Freyja. “I would give it thee, though it were of gold; I would grant it, though it were of silver.”
5. Then Loki flew, the feather-coat rustled, until he came out of Asgard and into Jötunheim.
6. Thrym, lord of the Giants, sat on a howe; he twisted golden bands for his greyhounds and trimmed his horses' manes.
7. Thrym. “How is it with the Aesir? How is it with the Elves? Why art thou come alone into Jötunheim?”
Loki. “It is ill with the Aesir, it is ill with the Elves; hast thou hidden the Thunderer's hammer?”