Freyja Shakes Hall

11 ‘It was an effort and I’ve had some success:
Thrym has your hammer, lord of the ogres;
no man will ever take it back from him again,
unless he brings him Freyia as his wife.’

12 Then they went to see the beautiful Freyia,
and these were the very first words he spoke:
‘Tie on yourself, Freyia, a bridal head-dress!
We two shall drive to the land of the giants.’

13 Furious then was Freyia and snorted in rage,
the whole hall of the Æsir trembled at that,
the great necklace of the Brisings fell from her:
‘You’ll know me to be the most man-mad of women,
if I drive with you to the land of the giants.’

14 All together the Æsir came in council,
and all the Asynior in consultation,
and what they debated, those mighty gods,
was how they should get back Hlorridi’s hammer.


- Poetic Edda, Thrymskvida