Were the giant's ways:
Thus I my head did peril.
107. Of a well assumed form
I made good use:
Few things fail the wise,
For Odrærer is now come up
To men's earthly dwellings.
108. 'Tis to me doubtful,
That I could have come
From the giant's courts,
Had not Gunlad aided me,—
That good damsel
Over whom I laid my arm.
109. On the day following
Came the frost-giants
To learn something of the High One
In the High One's hall;
After Bolverk they inquired,
Whether he with the gods were come,
Or Suttung had destroyed him.
110. Odin I believe
A ring-oath[1] gave.
Who in his faith will trust?
defrauded,
Of his drink bereft,
And Gunlad made to weep!
111. Time 't is to discourse
From the speaker's chair.
By the well of Urd
I silent sat,
I saw and meditated,
I listened to men's words.
- ↑ In the North a holy oath was taken on a ring kept in the temple for
that purpose.