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Lokasenna

  Frigg spake:27.[1] "If a son like Baldr  were by me now, Here within Ægir's hall,From the sons of the gods  thou shouldst go not forth Till thy fierceness in fight were tried."
  Loki spake:28. "Thou wilt then, Frigg,  that further I tell Of the ill that now I know;Mine is the blame  that Baldr no more Thou seest ride home to the hall."
  Freyja spake:29.[2] "Mad art thou, Loki,  that known thou makest The wrong and shame thou hast wrought;The fate of all  does Frigg know well, Though herself she says it not."
  Loki spake:30.[3] "Be silent, Freyja!  for fully I know thee, Sinless thou art not thyself;
  1. ↑ On the death of Baldr, slain through Loki's cunning by the blind Hoth, cf. Voluspo, 32 and note.
  2. ↑ Freyja: daughter of Njorth and sister of Freyr; cf. note on introductory prose. Snorri, in speaking of Frigg's knowledge of the future, makes a stanza out of Lokasenna, 21, 1; 47, 2; 29, 3-4, thus: "Mad art thou, Loki,  and little of wit, / Why, Loki, leavst thou this not? / The fate of all  does Frigg know well, / Though herself she says it not."
  3. ↑ According to Snorri, Freyja was a model of fidelity to her husband, Oth.

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