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Poetic Edda

  Svipdag spake:5. "Charms full good  then chant to me, mother, And seek thy son to guard;For death do I fear  on the way I shall fare, And in years am I young, methinks."
  Groa spake:6.[1] "Then first I will chant thee  the charm oft-tried, That Rani taught to Rind;From the shoulder whate'er  mislikes thee shake, For helper thyself shalt thou have.
7.[2] "Then next I will chant thee,  if needs thou must travel, And wander a purposeless way:The bolts of Urth  shall on every side Be thy guards on the road thou goest.
8.[3] "Then third I will chant thee,  if threatening streams The danger of death shall bring:

    his search for Mengloth ("Necklace-Glad"). This name has suggested that Mengloth is really Frigg, possessor of the famous Brisings' necklace, or else Freyja (cf. Lokasenna, 20, note).

  1. ↑ For this catalogue of charms (stanzas 6-14) cf. the Ljothatal (Hovamol, 147-165). Rani and Rind: the manuscripts have these words in inverse relation; I have followed Neckel's emendation. Rind was the giantess who became the mother of Vali, Othin's son, the one-night-old avenger of Baldr (cf. Voluspo, 33-34, and Baldrs Draumar, 11 and note). Rani is presumably Othin, who, according to a skaldic poem, won Rind by magic.
  2. ↑ Urth: one of the three Norns, or Fates; cf. Voluspo, 20.
  3. ↑

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