Made answer to the prince of men:

“Yea, if the Vánar, undeterred

By fear of vengeance, break his word,

Loss of his royal power ere long

Shall pay the traitor for the wrong.

Nor deem I him so void of sense

To brave the bitter consequence.

But if enslaved to joy he lie,

And scorn thy grace with blinded eye,

Then let him join his brother slain: