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Lokasenna

For drink beyond measure will lead all men No thought of their tongues to take."

Loki spake:48. "Be silent, Heimdall! in days long since Was an evil fate for thee fixed;With back held stiff must thou ever stand, As warder of heaven to watch."

Skathi spake:49.^[1] "Light art thou, Loki, but longer thou mayst not In freedom flourish thy tail;On the rocks the gods bind thee with bowels torn Forth from thy frost-cold son."

Loki spake:50. "Though on rocks the gods bind me with bowels torn Forth from my frost-cold son,

Rigsthula. He was a son of Othin, born of nine sisters; cf. Hyndluljoth, 37-40. In the last battle he and Loki slay one another. Line 2 is quoted by Snorri; cf. stanza 29, note.

↑ Skathi: the wife of Njorth, and daughter of the giant Thjazi, concerning whose death cf. Harbarthsljoth, 19, note. Bowels, etc.: according to the prose note at the end of the Lokasenna, the gods bound Loki with the bowels of his son Vali, and changed his other son, Narfi, into a wolf. Snorri turns the story about, Vali being the wolf, who tears his brother to pieces, the gods then using Narfi's intestines to bind Loki. Narfi—and presumably Vali—were the sons of Loki and his wife, Sigyn. They appear only in this episode, though Narfi (or Nari) is named by Snorri in his list of Loki's children. Cf. concluding prose, and note.

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[Lokasenna_49-1] Skathi: the wife of Njorth, and daughter of the giant Thjazi, concerning whose death cf. Harbarthsljoth, 19, note. Bowels, etc.: according to the prose note at the end of the Lokasenna, the gods bound Loki with the bowels of his son Vali, and changed his other son, Narfi, into a wolf. Snorri turns the story about, Vali being the wolf, who tears his brother to pieces, the gods then using Narfi's intestines to bind Loki. Narfi—and presumably Vali—were the sons of Loki and his wife, Sigyn. They appear only in this episode, though Narfi (or Nari) is named by Snorri in his list of Loki's children. Cf. concluding prose, and note.

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