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 nights in Thrymheim and three in Noatun. But when Njord came back from the mountains to Noatun he sang this:

Weary am I of the mountains, Not long was I there, Only nine nights. The howl of the wolves Methought sounded ill To the song of the swans.

Skade then sang this:

Sleep I could not On my sea-strand couch, For the scream of the sea-fowl. There wakes me, As he comes from the sea, Every morning the mew.

Then went Skade up on the mountain, and dwelt in Thrymheim. She often goes on skees (snow-shoes), with her bow, and shoots wild beasts. She is called skee-goddess or skee-dis. Thus it is said:

Thrymheim it is called Where Thjasse dwelt, That mightiest giant. But now dwells Skade, Pure bride of the gods, In her father's old homestead.

24. Njord, in Noatun, afterward begat two children: a son, by name Frey, and a daughter, by name Freyja. They were fair of face, and