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- ‘Now Loki was captured without quarter and taken to a certain
- cave. Then they took three stone slabs and set them on edge and
- knocked a hole in each slab. Then Loki’s sons Vali and Nari or
- Narfi were fetched. The Æsir turned Vali into the form of a wolf
- and he tore his brother Narfi to pieces. Then the Æsir took his
- guts and bound Loki with them across the three stones - one
- under his shoulders, one under his loins, the third under the backs
- of his knees — and these bonds turned to iron. Then Skadi got a
- poisonous snake and fixed it up over him so that the poison would
- drip from the snake into his face. But his wife Sigyn stands next to
- him holding a basin under the drops of poison. And when the
- basin is full she goes and pours away the poison, but in the
- meantime the poison drips into his face. Then he jerks away so hard
- that the whole earth shakes. That is what you call an earthquake.
- There he will lie in bonds until Ragnarok.’
- Then spoke Gangleri: ‘What information is there to be given
- about Ragnarok? I have not heard tell of this before.’
- - Prose Edda, Gylfaginning
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