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 her Wife of Bragi, and Keeper of the Apples; and the apples should be called Age-Elixir of the Æsir. Idunn is also called Spoil of the Giant Thjazi, according to the tale that has been told before, how he took her away from the Æsir. Thjódólfr of Hvin composed verses after that tale in the Haustlöng:


 * How shall I make voice-payment
 * Meetly for the shield-bridge
 * Of the war-wall Thórleifr gave me?
 * I survey the truceless faring
 * Of the three gods strife-foremost,
 * And Thjatsi's, on the shining
 * Cheek of the shield of battle.
 * Cheek of the shield of battle.


 * The Spoiler of the Lady
 * Swiftly flew with tumult
 * To meet the high god-rulers
 * Long hence in eagle-plumage;
 * The erne in old days lighted
 * Where the Æsir meat were bearing
 * To the fire-pit; the Giant
 * Of the rocks was called no faint-heart.


 * The skilful god-deceiver
 * To the gods proved a stern sharer
 * Of bones: the high Instructor
 * Of Æsir, helmet-hooded,
 * Saw some power checked the seething;
 * The sea-mew, very crafty,
 * Spake from the ancient tree-trunk;
 * Loki was ill-willed toward him.