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 Odin's friend got exhausted.

Heavy grew Lopt.

Odin's companion

Must sue for peace.

Hymer's kinsman demanded

That the leader of hosts

The sorrow-healing maid,

Who the asas' youth -preserving apples keeps,

Should bring to him.

Brisingamen's thief

Afterward brought Idun

To the gard of the giant.

Sorry were not the giants

After this had taken place.

Since from the south

Idun had come to the giants.

All the race

Of Yngve-Frey, at the Thing,

Grew old and gray, —

Ugly-looking were the gods.

Until the gods found the blood-dog,

Idun's decoying thrall.

And bound the maid's deceiver,

You shall, cunning Loke,

Spake Thor, die;

Unless back you lead.

With your tricks, that

Good joy-increasing maid.

Heard have I that thereupon

The friend of Honer flew

In the guise of a falcon

(He often deceived the asas with his cunning);

And the strong fraudulent giant.

The father of Morn,

With the wings of the eagle

Sped after the hawk's child.