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011 - Skaldskaparmal 18-22 · Prose Edda

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  Speaker 1: Skaldskparmo, sections eighteen to twenty two of the prose Edda
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  Speaker 1: by Snorri Sturlusson, translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur eighteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: eight to nineteen seventy one. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain recording by expatriate and Bangor Maine. The
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  Speaker 1: poesy of skulds section eighteen then said, eager methinks Krumner
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  Speaker 1: was of great might? Did Thor accomplish yet more valorous
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  Speaker 1: deeds when he had to do with the trolls? And
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  Speaker 1: Braggie answered, it is worthy to be told at length
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  Speaker 1: how Thor went to guy Ruder's dwelling. At that time
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  Speaker 1: he had not the hammer mulenir with him, nor his
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  Speaker 1: girdle of might, nor the iron gauntlets. And that was
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  Speaker 1: the fault of Loki, who went with him, for, once
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  Speaker 1: flying in his sport with Frig's hawk plumage, it had
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  Speaker 1: happened to Loki to fly for Curiosity's sake into guy
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  Speaker 1: Ruder's court. There he saw a great hall and alighted
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  Speaker 1: and looked in through the window, And guy Ruder looked
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  Speaker 1: up and saw him, and commanded that the bird be
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  Speaker 1: taken and brought to him. But he who was sent
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  Speaker 1: could scarce get to the top of the wall, so
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  Speaker 1: high was it. And it seemed pleasant to Loki to
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  Speaker 1: see the man striving with toil and pains to reach him,
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  Speaker 1: and he thought it was not yet time to fly
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  Speaker 1: away until the other had accomplished a perilous climb. When
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  Speaker 1: the man pressed hard after him, then he stretched his
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  Speaker 1: wings for flight and thrust out vehemently, But now his
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  Speaker 1: feet were stuck fast. So Loki was taken and brought
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  Speaker 1: before guy Ruder the Giant. But when guy Ruder saw
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, he suspected that this might be a man,
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  Speaker 1: and bade him answer, but Loki was silent. Then guy
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  Speaker 1: Ruder shut Loki into a chest and starved him there
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  Speaker 1: three months. And now, when guy Ruder took out and
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  Speaker 1: commanded him to speak, Loki told who he was, and,
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  Speaker 1: by way of ransom for his life, he swore to
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  Speaker 1: guy Ruder with oaths that he would get Thor to
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  Speaker 1: come to guy Ruder's dwelling in such a fashion that
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  Speaker 1: he should have neither hammer nor girdle of might with him.
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  Speaker 1: Thor came to spend the night with that giantess who
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  Speaker 1: was called Gridair, mother of Vidar the Silent. She told
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  Speaker 1: Thor the truth concerning guy Ruder, that he was a
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  Speaker 1: crafty giant and ill to deal with, and she lent
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  Speaker 1: him the girdle of Might and iron gloves which she possessed,
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  Speaker 1: and her staff also, which is called Greetir's rod. Then
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  Speaker 1: Thor proceeded to the river named Vemor, greatest of all rivers.
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  Speaker 1: There he girded himself with a girdle of Might and
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  Speaker 1: braced firmly down stream with Greeder's rod, and Loki held
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  Speaker 1: on behind by the girdle of Might. When Thor came
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  Speaker 1: to mid current, the river whacked so greatly that it
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  Speaker 1: broke high upon his shoulders. Then Thor sang this, wax
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  Speaker 1: thou not now vimur, for I fain would wade thee
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  Speaker 1: into the giant's garth know thou if thou waxest, then
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  Speaker 1: waxth God's strengthen me as high up as the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: Then Thor saw Gielp, daughter of guy Ruder, standing in
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  Speaker 1: certain ravines, one leg in each spanning the river, and
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  Speaker 1: she was causing the spate. Then Thor snatched up a
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  Speaker 1: great stone out of the river and cast it at her,
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  Speaker 1: saying these words at its source should a river be stemmed?
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  Speaker 1: Nor did he miss that at which he threw In
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  Speaker 1: that moment he came to the shore and took hold
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  Speaker 1: of a rowan clump, and so climbed out of the river.
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  Speaker 1: Whence comes the saying that Rowan is Thor's deliverance. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when Thor came before guy Ruder, the companions were shown
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  Speaker 1: first into the goat fold for their entertainment, And there
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  Speaker 1: was one chair there for a seat, and Thor sat there.
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  Speaker 1: Then he became aware that the chair moved under him
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  Speaker 1: up toward the roof. He thrust Greeder's rod up against
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  Speaker 1: the rafters and pushed back hard against the chair. Then
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  Speaker 1: there was a great crash and screaming followed. Under the
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  Speaker 1: chair had been guy Ruder's daughter's gelp and gripe, and
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  Speaker 1: he had broken both their backs. Then guy Ruder had
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  Speaker 1: Thor called into the hole to play games. There were
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  Speaker 1: great fires the whole length of the hole. When Thor
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  Speaker 1: came up over against guy Ruder. Then guy Ruder took
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  Speaker 1: up a glowing bar of iron with the tongs and
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  Speaker 1: cast it at Thor. Thor caught it with his iron
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  Speaker 1: gloves and raised the bar in the air, but guy
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  Speaker 1: Ruder leaped behind an iron pillar to save himself. Thor
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  Speaker 1: lifted up the bar and through it, and it passed
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  Speaker 1: through the pillar, and through guy Ruder, and through the wall,
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  Speaker 1: and so on out even into the earth. I Liefer
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  Speaker 1: good Runersen has wrought verses on this story in Torre's
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  Speaker 1: Drapa The Winding Sea Snake's father did while from home,
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  Speaker 1: the slayer of the life of the God's grim Foemen,
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  Speaker 1: ever was looped a liar. The never faithful searcher of
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  Speaker 1: the Heart of the Fearless Thunderer, declared green ways were
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  Speaker 1: lying to the walled stead of guy Ruder no long space.
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  Speaker 1: Thor let Loki lure him to the going They yearned
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  Speaker 1: to overmaster Thorne's offspring. When the seeker of Edie's garth,
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  Speaker 1: then giants greater in might made ready in ancient days
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  Speaker 1: for faring to the Giant's seat from Odin's further in
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  Speaker 1: the faring forward went warlike Telfi, with a divine host
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  Speaker 1: cheerer than the deceiving lover of her of enchanted singing,
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  Speaker 1: I chant the ale of odin the hill Dame's mocker
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  Speaker 1: measured the moor with hollow footsols, and the war wonted,
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  Speaker 1: journeyed till the hill women's waster came to Ganger's blood.
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  Speaker 1: The v mour then Loki's bail repeller, eager in anger,
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  Speaker 1: lavish of valor, long to struggle against the maid kinswoman
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  Speaker 1: of the sedge cowled giant in the honor lessener of
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  Speaker 1: the Lady of the sea. Crag one foothold, in the
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  Speaker 1: surging of the hail rolled leaping hill spate, the rocknave
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  Speaker 1: swift pursuer pasted the broad stream of his staff's road,
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  Speaker 1: where the foam flecked mighty rivers frothed with raging venom.
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  Speaker 1: There they set the stays before them, in the streaming
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  Speaker 1: grove of dog fish, the windwood's slippery pebbles, smitten to speech,
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  Speaker 1: slept not. The clashing rod did rattle gainst the worn rocks,
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  Speaker 1: and the rapid of the fells howled storm smitten on
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  Speaker 1: the river's stony anvil, the weaver of the girdle beheld
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  Speaker 1: the washing slope stream fall on his hard grown shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: No help he found to save him. The minister of
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  Speaker 1: hill folk caused might to grow within him even to
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  Speaker 1: the roof of heaven, till the rushing flood should ebb
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  Speaker 1: the fair warriors of the esir in battle wise fast weighted,
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  Speaker 1: and the surging pool sward sweeping streamed, the earth drifts
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  Speaker 1: billow blown by the mighty tempest, tugged with monstrous fury
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  Speaker 1: at the terrible oppressor of the earth born tribe of
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  Speaker 1: cave folk, till Tiolfi came uplifted on his lord Thor's
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  Speaker 1: wide shield strap. That was a mighty thew test for
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  Speaker 1: the prop of heaven. The maidens of the harmful Giant
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  Speaker 1: stiffly held the stream stubborn against them. The giantess destroyer
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  Speaker 1: with Greeter's staff, fared sternly. Nor did their hearts of
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  Speaker 1: rancor droop in the men unblemished, nor courage against the
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  Speaker 1: headlong fall of the current failed them. A fiercer, daring
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  Speaker 1: spirit flamed in the dauntless God's breast with terror. Thor's
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  Speaker 1: staunch hertstone trembled not nor Tialfi's, And afterward the haters
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  Speaker 1: of the host of sword companions, the shadows of bucklers,
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  Speaker 1: dinned on the shields of giants ere the destroying peoples
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  Speaker 1: of the shingled drift of monsters wrought the helm play
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  Speaker 1: of Hedeen against the rock dwelling marksmen. The hostile folk
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  Speaker 1: of sea Heights fled before the oppressor of headland tribes.
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  Speaker 1: The dalesmen of the hilltops imperiled, fled when Odin's kindred
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  Speaker 1: stood enduring staunchly. The Danes of the flood reefs border
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  Speaker 1: bowed down to the flame shaker, where the chiefs, with
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of valor imbued, marched into Thorn's house. A mighty
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  Speaker 1: crash resounded of the cave's ring wall. The slayer of
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  Speaker 1: the mountain reindeer people on the giant Maiden's wide hood
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  Speaker 1: was brought in bitter peril there with baleful peace talk,
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  Speaker 1: and they pressed the high head, bearing the piercing brow
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  Speaker 1: Moon's eye flame against the hill hole's rafters. On the
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  Speaker 1: high roof tree broken, he crushed those raising women. The
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  Speaker 1: swinging storm car's guiter burst the stout ancient back ridge
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  Speaker 1: and breastbones of both women. Earth's sun became familiar with
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  Speaker 1: knowledge strange. The cave men of the land of Stone
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  Speaker 1: o'ercame not nor long with ale, were merry. The frightful
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  Speaker 1: Elmstring's plucker, the friend of Sudri hurtled. The hot bar
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  Speaker 1: in the forge fused into the hand of Odin's gladdener,
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  Speaker 1: so that Gunner's swift speeder seized the Friend of Phaea
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  Speaker 1: with quick hand gulps. The molten high raised draft of metal.
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  Speaker 1: When the fire brand, glowing flew with maddened fury from
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  Speaker 1: the giant's gripping fingers to the grim sire of Truder.
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  Speaker 1: The hull of the Doughty trembled when he dashed the
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  Speaker 1: massy forehead of the hill white gainst the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the house wall's ancient column. Uller's glorious stepsire, with the
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  Speaker 1: glowing bar of mischief, struck with his whole strength downward
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  Speaker 1: at the hill nave's mid girdle. The god with gory
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  Speaker 1: hammer crushed utterly. Glommer's lineage. The hunter of the Kindred
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  Speaker 1: of the hearth name was victorious. The plucker of the
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  Speaker 1: bow string lacked not his people's valor. The chariot god,
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  Speaker 1: who swiftly wrought grief to the giant's bench fanes, he
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  Speaker 1: to whom hosts make offering, hewed down the dolt like
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  Speaker 1: dwellers of the cloud Abyss of Elfholm, crushing them with
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  Speaker 1: the fragment of Greeter's rod, the litter of hawks. The
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  Speaker 1: race of Listi could not harm the helpstrong queller of
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  Speaker 1: Ella's stone folk Section nineteen. How should one paraphrase frig
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  Speaker 1: call her daughter of Fiorgin, wife of Odin, mother of
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  Speaker 1: bolder Co, wife of yord and Render and Gunlud and Gridder,
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  Speaker 1: mother in law of Nunna, lady of the Isesir, Nasinya,
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  Speaker 1: mistress of Fula and of the hawk Plumage and of Fensalir.
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty How should one paraphrase Freya thus by calling
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  Speaker 1: her daughter of Hudur, sister of Freyre, wife of Odir,
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  Speaker 1: mother of nas possessor of the slain of Cess Rumnir,
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  Speaker 1: of the Gibcats, and of Breysinga Men, Goddess of the Vanir,
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  Speaker 1: Lady of the Vanir, goddess beautiful in tears, goddess of love.
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  Speaker 1: All the goddesses may be paraphrased thus by calling them
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  Speaker 1: by the name of another and naming them in terms
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  Speaker 1: of their possessions, or their works or their kindred Section
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. How should Sif be paraphrased by calling her
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  Speaker 1: wife of thor, mother of Uller, fair haired goddess co
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  Speaker 1: wife of Yarnsaksa, mother of Trudeir Section twenty two. How
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  Speaker 1: should Edun be paraphrased thus by calling her wife of
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  Speaker 1: Broggie and keeper of the apples, And the apples should
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  Speaker 1: be called age elixir of the Esir. Edun is also
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  Speaker 1: called spoil of the giant Tiazi. According to the tale
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  Speaker 1: that has been told before, how he took her away
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  Speaker 1: from the Esir till dulpher Ann composed verses after that
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  Speaker 1: tale in the house lund, how shall I make voice
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  Speaker 1: payment meetly for the shield bridge of the war wolf
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  Speaker 1: tore Lifer gave me. I surveyed the truthless firing of
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  Speaker 1: the three gods Strife foremost and tiatsis on the shining
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  Speaker 1: cheek of the shield of battle. The spoiler of the
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  Speaker 1: lady swiftly flew with tumult to meet the high god
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  Speaker 1: rulers long. Hence in eagle plumage the errn in old
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  Speaker 1: days lighted where the esir meat were bearing to the
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  Speaker 1: fire pit. The giant of the rocks was called no faintheart.
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  Speaker 1: The skillful god, deceiver to the gods, proved a stern
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  Speaker 1: sharer of bones, the high instructor of Esir, helmet hooded
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  Speaker 1: saw some power checked the seething the seamew very crafty
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  Speaker 1: spake from the ancient tree trunk. Loki was ill willed
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  Speaker 1: toward him. The wolfish monster ordered Miley's sire to deal
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  Speaker 1: him food from the holy trencher. The friend of him
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  Speaker 1: of ravens to blow the fire was chosen. The giant
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  Speaker 1: king Flesh greedy sank down where the guileless, craft sparing
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  Speaker 1: gods were gathered. The comely lord of all things commended
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  Speaker 1: Loki swiftly to part the bull's meat slaughtered by Scotti's
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  Speaker 1: ringing bowstring among the folk. But straightway the cunning food
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  Speaker 1: defiler of the Esir filched the quarters, all four from
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  Speaker 1: the broad table, and the hungry sire of giants savagely
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  Speaker 1: ate the yoke beast from the oak tree sheltering branches
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  Speaker 1: that was in ancient ages ere. The wise minded Loki,
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  Speaker 1: warder of war spoil, smote him, boldest of foes of
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  Speaker 1: earth folk, with a pole betwixt the shoulders. The arm
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  Speaker 1: burden then of Siggin, whom all the gods in bonds
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  Speaker 1: see firmly forthwith, was fastened to the fosterer of Skadi,
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  Speaker 1: to Eutenheim's strong dweller. The pole stuck, and the fingers
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  Speaker 1: of Loki, too, companion of Hohunir clung to the pole's end.
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  Speaker 1: The bird of blood flew upward, blithsome in his quarry,
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  Speaker 1: a long way off with Loki, the lither god that
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  Speaker 1: almost Wolf's sire was rent asunder Thor's friend must sue
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  Speaker 1: for mercy such piece as he might purchase to pray
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  Speaker 1: nigh slain was look't here. Then he Mer's kinsmen ordered
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  Speaker 1: the crafty god pain maddened to wild to him the
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  Speaker 1: maiden who warded the Esir's age cure ere long the
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  Speaker 1: neckless robber be Singinga's thief lured slyly the Dame of
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  Speaker 1: Brunnaker's brooklet into the base one's dwelling. At that the
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  Speaker 1: steep slope dwellers no sorrow felt. Then Idun was from
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  Speaker 1: the south by giant's new stolen. Come among them all
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  Speaker 1: envy Frere's high kindred, hoary and old to counsel, hasted,
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  Speaker 1: gruesome of fashion and ugly, all the gods were this
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  Speaker 1: heard I that the staunch friend of he neer oft. Thereafter,
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  Speaker 1: with whiles he tricked the esir flew in hawk wings hidden,
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  Speaker 1: and the vile sire of giants, vigorous winged plume wielder
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  Speaker 1: hurtled on eagle pinion after the hawk shaped Loki swiftly
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  Speaker 1: the gods have kindled a fire, and the sovereign rulers
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  Speaker 1: sustain'd the flame with shavings scorched with the flying giant
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  Speaker 1: he plunged down in mid soaring tis pictured on the
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  Speaker 1: giant's soul bridge, the shield which painted with stories toward
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  Speaker 1: Liefer gave me. This is the correct manner of paraphrasing
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  Speaker 1: the Esir to call each of them by the name
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  Speaker 1: of another, and to designate him in terms of his works,
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  Speaker 1: or his possessions, or his kindred and of sections eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty two recording by expatriate in Bangor, Maine,