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Lokasenna

  Othin spake:21.[1] "Mad art thou, Loki,  and little of wit, The wrath of Gefjun to rouse;For the fate that is set  for all she sees, Even as I, methinks."
  Loki spake:
22. "Be silent, Othin!  not justly thou settest The fate of the fight among men;Oft gavst thou to him  who deserved not the gift, To the baser, the battle's prize."
  Othin spake:
23.[2] "Though I gave to him  who deserved not the gift, To the baser, the battle's prize;Winters eight  wast thou under the earth, Milking the cows as a maid, (Ay, and babes didst thou bear; Unmanly thy soul must seem.)"

    answer (stanza 21, lines 3-4) fits Frigg perfectly, for she shared his knowledge of the future, whereas it has no relation to anything known of Gefjun. As for the necklace (line 3), it may be the Brisings' necklace, which appears in the Thrymskvitha as Freyja's, but which, in some mythological writings, is assigned to Frigg.

  1. ↑ Snorri quotes line 1; cf. note on stanza 29.
  2. ↑ There is no other reference to Loki's having spent eight years underground, or to his cow-milking. On one occasion, however, he did bear offspring. A giant had undertaken to build the gods a fortress, his reward being Freyja and the sun and moon, provided the work was done by a given time. His sole helper was his horse, Svathilfari. The work being nearly done, and the gods fearing to lose Freyja and the sun and moon, Loki

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