19.  Apples all-golden I have here eleven:  these I will give thee, Gerd, thy love to gain, that thou mayest say that Frev to thee lives dearest.

Gerd.

20.  The apples eleven I never will accept for any mortal’s pleasure; nor will I and Frey, while our lives last, live both together.

Skirnir.

21.  The ring too I will give thee, which was burnt with the young son of Odin.  Eight of equal weight will from it drop, every ninth night.

Gerd.

22.  The ring I will not accept, burnt though it may have been with the young son of Odin.  I have no lack of gold in Gymir’s courts; for my father’s wealth I share.

Skirnir.

23.  Seest thou this sword, young maiden! thin, glittering-bright, which I have here in hand?  I thy head will sever from thy neck, if thou speakst not favourably to me.

Gerd.

24.  Suffer compulsion will I never, to please any man; yet this I foresee, if thou and Gymir meet, ye will eagerly engage in fight.

Skirnir.

25.  Seest thou this sword, young maiden! thin, glittering-bright, which I have here in hand?  Beneath its edge shall the old Jotun fall:  thy sire is death-doomed.

26.  With a taming-wand I smite thee, and I will tame thee, maiden! to my will.  Thou shalt go thither, where the sons of men shall never more behold thee.

27.  On an eagle’s mount thou shalt early sit, looking and turned towards Hel.  Food shall to thee more loathsome be than is to any one the glistening serpent among men.

28.  As a prodigy thou shalt be, when thou goest forth; Hrimnir shall at thee gaze, all beings at thee stare; more wide-known thou shalt become than the watch among the gods,[37] if thou from thy gratings gape.

29.  Solitude and disgust, bonds and impatience, shall thy tears with grief augment.  Set thee down, and I will tell thee of a whelming flood of care, and a double grief.

30.  Terrors shall bow thee down the livelong day, in the Jotuns’ courts.  To the Hrimthursar’s halls, thou shalt each day crawl exhausted, joyless crawl; wail for pastime shalt thou have, and tears and misery.

31.  With a three-headed Thurs thou shalt be ever bound, or be without a mate.  Thy mind shall tear thee from morn to morn:  as the thistle thou shalt be which has thrust itself on the house-top.

32.  To the wold I have been, and to the humid grove, a magic wand to get.  A magic wand I got.

33.  Wroth with thee is Odin, wroth with thee is the AEsir’s prince; Frey shall loathe thee, even ere thou, wicked maid! shalt have felt the gods’ dire vengeance.

34.  Hear ye, Jotuns! hear ye, Hrimthursar! sons of Suttung! also ye, iEsir’s friends! how I forbid, how I prohibit man’s joy unto the damsel, man’s converse to the damsel.

35.  Hrimgrimnir the Thurs is named, that shall possess thee, in the grating of the dead beneath; there shall wretched thralls, from the tree’s roots, goats’ water give thee.  Other drink shalt thou, maiden! never get, either for thy pleasure, or for my pleasure.