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Frigg spake: "If a son like Baldr were by me now, Here within Ægir's hall, From the sons of the gods  thou shouldst go not forth Till thy fierceness in fight were tried."

Loki spake: "Thou wilt then, Frigg, that further I tell Of the ill that now I know; Mine is the blame  that Baldr no more Thou seest ride home to the hall."

Freyja spake: "Mad art thou, Loki, that known thou makest The wrong and shame thou hast wrought; The fate of all  does Frigg know well, Though herself she says it not."

Loki spake: "Be silent, Freyja! for fully I know thee, Sinless thou art not thyself;