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 Lest evil should Loki speak aloud Here within Ægir's hall."

Then Vithar arose and poured drink for Loki; but before he drank he spoke to the gods:

"Hail to you, gods! ye goddesses, hail! Hail to the holy throng! Save for the god  who yonder sits, Bragi there on the bench."

Bragi spake: "A horse and a sword from my hoard will I give, And a ring gives Bragi to boot, That hatred thou makst not  among the gods; So rouse not the great ones to wrath."

Loki spake: "In horses and rings thou shalt never be rich, Bragi, but both shalt thou lack; Of the gods and elves  here together met Least brave in battle art thou, (And shyest thou art of the shot.)"

Bragi spake: "Now were I without as I am within,