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Loki Claims Credit

Mar 1st, 2023
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  1. Skadi said:
  2. 49 ‘You’re light-hearted, Loki; you won’t for long
  3. play with your tail wagging free,
  4. for on a rock-edge, with your ice-cold son’s guts,
  5. the gods shall bind you.’
  6.  
  7. Loki said:
  8. 50 ‘You know, if on a rock-edge, with my ice-cold son’s guts,
  9. the gods shall bind me,
  10. first and foremost I was at the killing
  11. when we seized Thiazi.’*
  12.  
  13. Skadi said:
  14. 51 ‘You know, if first and foremost you were at the killing
  15. when you seized Thiazi,
  16. from my sanctuaries and meadows cold counsel
  17. shall always come to you.’
  18.  
  19. Loki said:
  20. 52 ‘Gentler in speech you were to Laufey’s son
  21. when you had me invited to your bed;
  22. we must mention such things when we reckon up
  23. our shameful deeds.’
  24.  
  25.  
  26. - Poetic Edda, Lokasenna
  27.  
  28.  
  29. ("Thiazi: Skadi’s father, who kidnapped Idunn. Loki rescued her and thus was instrumental in Thiazi’s death. The story is related in Snorri, Edda, pp. 59–61. Thor claims the credit for killing Thiazi in Harbard’s Song, v. 19." - from the Explanatory Notes section included with the translation)
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