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Poetic Edda

Thy shoulder-cliff  shall I cleave from thy neck, And so shall thy life be lost."
  Loki spake:58.[1] "Lo, in has come  the son of Earth: Why threaten so loudly, Thor?Less fierce thou shalt go  to fight with the wolf When he swallows Sigfather up."
  Thor spake:59.[2] "Unmanly one, cease,  or the mighty hammer, Mjollnir, shall close thy mouth;I shall hurl thee up  and out in the East, Where men shall see thee no more."
  Loki spake:60.[3] "That thou hast fared  on the East-road forth; To men shouldst thou say no more;

    the use of such diction in the Edda, cf. introductory note to Hymiskvitha. The manuscript indicates line 3 as the beginning of a stanza, but is apparently a scribal error.

  1. ↑ Son of Earth: Thor, son of Othin and Jorth (Earth). The manuscript omits the word "son," but all editors have agreed in supplying it. The wolf: Fenrir, Loki's son, who slays Othin (Sigfather: "Father of Victory") in the final battle. Thor, according to Snorri and to the Voluspo, 56, fights with Mithgarthsorm and not with Fenrir, who is killed by Vithar.
  2. ↑ Lines 1-2 are abbreviated in the manuscript, as also in stanzas 61 and 63.
  3. ↑ Loki's taunt that Thor hid in the thumb of Skrymir's glove is similar to that of Othin, Harbarthsljoth, 26, in the note to which the story is outlined. Line 4 is identical with line 3 of Harbarthsljoth, 26.

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