54.  So alone shouldst thou be, hadst thou strict and prudent been towards thy mate; but one I know, and, I think, know him well, a favoured rival of Hlorridi, and that is the wily Loki.

Beyla.

55.  The fells all tremble:  I think Hlorridi is from home journeying.  He will bid be quiet him who here insults all gods and men.

Loki.

56.  Be silent, Beyla!  Thou art Byggvir’s wife, and with much evil mingled:  never came a greater monster among the AEsir’s sons.  Thou art a dirty strumpet.

Thor then came in and said: 

57.  Silence, thou impure being!  My mighty hammer, Miollnir, shall stop thy prating.  I will thy head from thy neck strike; then will thy life be ended.

Loki.

58.  Now the son of earth is hither come.  Why dost thou chafe so, Thor?  Thou wilt not dare do so, when with the wolf thou hast to fight, and he the all-powerful father swallows whole.

Thor.

59.  Silence, thou impure being!  My mighty hammer, Miollnir, shall stop thy prating.  Up I will hurl thee to the east region, and none shall see thee after.

Loki.

60.  Of thy eastern travels thou shouldest never to people speak, since in a glove-thumb thou, Einheri! wast doubled up, and hardly thoughtest thou wast Thor.

Thor.

61.  Silence, thou impure being!  My mighty hammer, Miollnir, shall stop thy prating:  with this right hand I, Hrungnir’s bane, will smite thee, so that thy every bone be broken.

Loki.

62.  ’Tis my intention a long life to live, though with thy hammer thou dost threaten me.  Skrymir’s thongs seemed to thee hard, when at the food thou couldst not get, when, in full health, of hunger dying.

Thor.

63.  Silence, thou impure being!  My mighty hammer, Miollnir, shall stop thy prating.  Hrungnir’s bane shall cast thee down to Hel, beneath the gratings of the dead.

Loki.

64.  I have said before the AEsir, I have said before the AEsir’s sons, that which my mind suggested:  but for thee alone will I go out; because I know that thou wilt fight.

65.  Oegir! thou hast brewed beer; but thou never shalt henceforth a compotation hold.  All thy possessions, which are herein, flame shall play over, and on thy back shall burn thee.

After this Loki, in the likeness of a salmon, cast himself into the waterfall of Franangr, where the AEsir caught him, and bound him with the entrails of his son Nari; but his other son, Narfi, was changed into a wolf.  Skadi took a venomous serpent, and fastened it up over Loki’s face.  The venom trickled down from it.  Sigyn, Loki’s wife, sat by, and held a basin under the venom; and when the basin was full, carried the venom out.  Meanwhile the venom dropped on Loki, who shrank from it so violently that the whole earth trembled.  This causes what are now called earthquakes.