Thor. “And I appoint him that he shall own neither land nor sand.”
Odin. “I give him that he shall be rich in money.”
Thor. “I lay on him that he shall never seem to have enough.”
Odin. “I give him victory and martial skill in every fight.”
Thor. “I lay on him that in every fight he shall lose a limb.”
Odin. “I give him the poet’s faculty, so that he shall produce poems with as much ease as unmeasured language.”
Thor. “He shall never be able to remember the verses he makes.”
Odin. “I grant him that he shall be favoured by those of greatest rank and name.”
Thor. “He shall be hated by all others.”
Then the judges ratified to Sterkodder all that had been said, and the council broke up.