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Poetic Edda

  Skirnir spake:42.[1] "Barri there is,  which we both know well, A forest fair and still;And nine nights hence  to the son of Njorth Will Gerth there grant delight."
  Freyr spake:43.[2] "Long is one night,  longer are two; How then shall I bear three?Often to me  has a month seemed less Than now half a night of desire."
  1. ↑ Abbreviated to initial letters in the manuscripts.
  2. ↑ The superscription is lacking in Regius. Snorri quotes this one stanza in his prose paraphrase, Gylfaginning, chapter 37. The two versions are substantially the same, except that Snorri makes the first line read, "Long is one night,  long is the second."

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