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Rh enough, three days before the first day of summer only one pillar was unfinished.

Seeing this, the gods threatened to kill Loke if he did not find a way out of the difficulty. They could not give Freyja. If they gave the sun and moon, everything would be in darkness.

But on the last night Loke changed himself into a monster and ran out of the woods before Svadilfare. The horse was so frightened that he ran away. The workman was forced to go after him. So the fort was not finished.

Seeing that he could not get his reward, the workman became a giant, as he really was, and Thor struck him dead with his hammer.