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Poetic Edda

  Thor spake:25. "Unequal gifts  of men wouldst thou give to the gods,If might too much thou shouldst have."
  Harbarth spake:26.[1] "Thor has might enough,  but never a heart;For cowardly fear  in a glove wast thou fain to crawl,And there forgot thou wast Thor;Afraid there thou wast,  thy fear was such,To fart or sneeze  lest Fjalar should hear."
  Thor spake:27. "Thou womanish Harbarth,  to hell would I smite thee straight,Could mine arm reach over the sound."

    and, for a somewhat different version, Grimnismol, 14. Nowhere else is it indicated that Thor has an asylum for dead peasants.

  1. ↑ The reference here is to one of the most familiar episodes in Thor's eastward journey. He and his companions came to a house in the forest, and went in to spend the night. Being disturbed by an earthquake and a terrific noise, they all crawled into a smaller room opening from the main one. In the morning, however, they discovered that the earthquake had been occasioned by the giant Skrymir's lying down near them, and the noise by his snoring. The house in which they had taken refuge was his glove, the smaller room being the thumb. Skrymir was in fact Utgartha-Loki himself. That he is in this stanza called Fjalar (the name occurs also in Hovamol, 14) is probably due to a confusion of the names by which Utgartha-Loki went. Loki taunts Thor with this adventure in Lokasenna, 60 and 62, line 3 of this stanza being perhaps interpolated from Lokasenna, 60, 4.

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