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Lokasenna

He took the horn, and drank therefrom:

54.[1] "Alone thou wert  if truly thou wouldst All men so shyly shun;But one do I know  full well, methinks, Who had thee from Hlorrithi's arms,— (Loki the crafty in lies.)"
  Beyla spake:55.[2] "The mountains shake,  and surely I think From his home comes Hlorrithi now;He will silence the man  who is slandering here Together both gods and men."
  Loki spake:56. "Be silent, Beyla!  thou art Byggvir's wife, And deep art thou steeped in sin;A greater shame  to the gods came ne'er, Befouled thou art with thy filth."

Then came Thor forth, and spake:

57.[3] "Unmanly one, cease,  or the mighty hammer, Mjollnir, shall close thy mouth;

    from the preceding prose, and a few editors have, obviously in error, attributed the speech to Beyla.

  1. ↑ Hlorrithi: Thor. Line 5 is probably spurious.
  2. ↑ Beyla: Freyr's servant, wife of Byggvir; cf. introductory prose and note.
  3. ↑ Mjollnir: concerning Thor's famous hammer see particularly Thrymskvitha, 1 and note. Shoulder-cliff: head; concerning

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