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Poetic Edda

He harms not maids  nor the wives of men, And the bound from their fetters he frees."
  Loki spake:38.[1] "Be silent, Tyr!  for between two men Friendship thou ne'er couldst fashion;Fain would I tell  how Fenrir once Thy right hand rent from thee."
  Tyr spake:39.[2] "My hand do I lack,  but Hrothvitnir thou, And the loss brings longing to both;Ill fares the wolf  who shall ever await In fetters the fall of the gods."
  Loki spake:40.[3] "Be silent, Tyr!  for a son with me Thy wife once chanced to win;Not a penny, methinks,  wast thou paid for the wrong, Nor wast righted an inch, poor wretch."
  Freyr spake:41.[4] "By the mouth of the river  the wolf remains
  1. ↑ Snorri mentiones Tyr's incompetence as a peacemaker. Fenrir: the wolf, Loki's son; cf. Voluspo, 39.
  2. ↑ Hrothvitnir ("The Mighty Wolf"): Fenrir, who awaits in chains the final battle and death at the hands of Vithar. The manuscript has a metrical error in line 3, which has led to various emendations, all with much the same meaning.
  3. ↑ Thy wife: there is no other reference to Tyr's wife, nor do we know who was the son in question.
  4. ↑

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