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Poetic Edda

The third morn hence  he may hold in mind,When their races Ottar  and Angantyr tell."
  Hyndla spake:47.[1] "Hence shalt thou fare,  for fain would I sleep,From me thou gettest  few favors good;My noble one, out  in the night thou leapestAs Heithrun goes  the goats among.
48.[2] "To Oth didst thou run,  who loved thee ever,And many under  thy apron have crawled;My noble one, out  in the night thou leapest,As Heithrun goes  the goats among."
  Freyja spake:49.[3] "Around the giantess  flames shall I raise,So that forth unburned  thou mayst not fare."

    with the help of the "memory-beer" is to recall the entire genealogy he has just heard, and thus win his wager with Angantyr.

  1. ↑ Heithrun: the she-goat that stands by Valhall (cf. Grimnismol, 25), the name being here used simply of the she-goats in general, in caustic comment on Freyja's morals. Of these Loki entertained a similar view; cf. Lokasenna, 30.
  2. ↑ Oth: cf. stanza 6 and note, and Voluspo, 25 and note. Lines 3-4, abbreviated in the manuscript, are very likely repeated here by mistake.
  3. ↑ The manuscript repeats once again lines 3-4 of stanza 47 as the last two lines of this stanza. It seems probable that two lines have been lost, to the effect that Freyja will burn the giantess alive "If swiftly now  thou dost not seek, / And hither bring  the memory-beer."

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