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Poetic Edda

If a single night  she can sleep by the prince, Then requited are all her ills."
  Helgi spake:25.[1] "'Tis Lothin shall have thee,—  thou'rt loathsome to men,— His home in Tholley he has;Of the wild-dwellers worst  is the giant wise, He is meet as a mate for thee."
  Hrimgerth spake:26.[2] "More thou lovest her  who scanned the harbor, Last night among the men;(The gold-decked maid  bore magic, methinks, When the land from the sea she sought, And fast she kept your fleet;)She alone is to blame  that I may not bring Death to the monarch's men."
  Helgi spake:27. "Hrimgerth, mark,  if thy hurts I requite, Tell now the truth to the king;
  1. ↑ Of the giant Lothin ("The Shaggy") and his home in Tholley ("Pine Island") nothing is known. Cf. Skirnismol, 35.
  2. ↑ Something is clearly wrong with this stanza, and the manuscript indicates line 6 as the beginning of a new one. Perhaps a line (between lines 4 and 5) has been lost, or perhaps the lines in parenthesis are interpolations. Hrimgerth here refers to Svava, or to the protectress with whom the annotator has identified her, as having saved Helgi and his ships from the vengeance of the giantesses. In the original line 1 includes Helgi's name, which makes it metrically incorrect.

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