Norse mythology; or, The religion of our forefathers, containing all the myths of the Eddas, systematized and interpreted

by Rasmus Björn Anderson

With sorrow.

Thus also in the old song of Aage and Else:

Whenever thou grievest,

My coffin is within

As livid blood:

Whenever thou rejoicest,

My coffin is within

Filled with fragrant roses.

SECTION VI. LOKE’S PUNISHMENT.

Loke and Balder struggled for the government of the world. Loke gradually grew victorious in his terrible children, while Balder, defenseless and innocent, had nothing but his shining purity with which to oppose Loke’s baseness. Loke’s wickedness reached its culminating point in the death of Balder and in the hag Thok, who with arid tears would wail Balder from Hel.