Monsters, huge-warted, eyed with wells of fire.

But Sigyn, Loké's wife, stole in to him,

And sate herself beside his writhen limbs,

And held a cup of gold against the mouth

Of ceaseless poison dripping in the gloom.

Was it her voice lamenting? or the sound

Of far abysmal waters falling, falling

Down tortured labyrinths of hollow rock?

Or was't the Strömkarl? he whose hoary harp