Thor's Threats

Then Sif went forward and poured out mead for Loki into a crystal goblet and said:
53 ‘Welcome, now, Loki, and take the crystal goblet
full of ancient mead,
you should rather admit, of the Æsir’s children,
that Sif alone is blameless.’

He took the horn and drank it down:
54 ‘You would be the only one, if you were so,
were cautious and reluctant with a man;
I know one—and I think I do know—
a lover besides Thor,
and that was the malevolent Loki.’

Beyla said:
55 ‘All the mountain-range shakes; I think Thor must be
on his way from home;
he’ll bring peace to the one who badmouths here
all the gods and men.’

Loki said:
56 ‘Be silent, Beyla, you’re Byggvir’s wife
and much imbued with malice;
no worse disgrace came among the Æsir’s children,
you dung-splattered dairy-maid.’

Then Thor arrived and said:
57 ‘Be silent, perverse creature, my mighty hammer
Miollnir shall deprive you of speech;
your shoulder-rock I shall strike off your neck,
and then your life will be gone.’

Loki said:
58 ‘The son of Earth has now come in;
why are you raging so, Thor?
But you won’t be daring when you must fight against the wolf,
when he swallows Odin all up.’

Thor said:
59 ‘Be silent, perverse creature, my mighty hammer
Miollnir shall deprive you of speech;
I shall throw you up on the roads to the east,*
afterwards no one will ever see you.’

Loki said:
60 ‘Your eastern journeys you should never
relate to people
since in the thumb of a glove you crouched cowering, you hero!
And then you didn’t seem like Thor.’

Thor said:
61 ‘Be silent, perverse creature, my mighty hammer
Miollnir shall deprive you of speech;
with my right hand I’ll strike you, with Hrungnir’s killer,
so that every one of your bones will break.’

Loki said:
62 ‘I intend to live for a good time yet,
though you threaten me with a hammer;
strong leather straps you thought Skrymir had,
and you couldn’t get at the food,
and you starved, unharmed but hungry.’

Thor said:
63 ‘Be silent, perverse creature, my mighty hammer
Miollnir shall deprive you of speech;
Hrungnir’s killer will send you to hell,
down below the corpse-gate.’

Loki said:
64 ‘I spoke before the Æsir, I spoke before the Æsir’s sons
what my spirit urged me,
but for you alone I shall go out,
for I know that you do strike.

65 ‘Ale you brewed, Ægir, but you’ll never again
prepare a feast;
all your possessions that are here inside—
may flame play over them,
and your back be burnt!’


- Prose Edda, Lokasenna


("roads to the east: Thor threw Thiazi’s eyes up into the sky to become stars after killing him (Harbard’s Song, v. 19), and also the toe of Aurvandil, another giant (Snorri, Edda, pp. 79–80)." - From the Explanatory Notes section included with the translation)