But how shall I hold out three?
Shorter hath seemed
A month to me oft
Than of this longing time the half.”
So Frey obtained Gerda, the most beautiful of all women, for his wife, but he lost his sword.
This story, entitled “Skirnir For,” and the one immediately preceding it, “Thrym’s Quida,” will be found poetically told in Longfellow’s “Poets and Poetry of Europe.”
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