Claims

Loki said:
20 ‘Be silent, Gefion, I’m going to mention this,
how your spirit was seduced;
the white boy gave you a jewel
and you laid your thigh over him.’

Odin said:
21 ‘Mad you are, Loki, and out of your wits,
when you make Gefion angry with you,
for I think she knows all the fate of the world,
as clearly as I myself.’

Loki said:
22 ‘Be silent, Odin, you could never
apportion war-fortune among men;
often you’ve given what you shouldn’t have given,
victory, to the faint-hearted.’*

Odin said:
23 ‘You know, if I gave what I shouldn’t have given,
victory, to the faint-hearted,
yet eight winters you were, beneath the earth,
a milchcow and a woman,
and there you bore children,
and that I thought the hallmark of a pervert.’

Loki said:
24 ‘But you, they say, practised seid on Samsey,*
and you beat on the drum as seeresses do,
in the likeness of a wizard you journeyed over mankind,
and that I thought the hallmark of a pervert.’

Frigg said:
25 ‘The fates you met should never be
told in front of people,
what you two Æsir underwent in past times;
the living should keep their distance from ancient matters.’


- Poetic Edda, Lokasenna


("the faint-hearted: Odin was notorious for deserting his protégés in battle and giving victory to the other side so that his favourites could join him in Valhall." - from the Explanatory Notes section included with the translation)

("seid on Samsey: the use of drums and cross-dressing seems to be typical of seid, a type of magic said to be practised by the Vanir, especially Freyia (Seeress’s Prophecy, v. 23), and by the Lapps." - from the Explanatory Notes section included with the translation)