Loki spake:
26. "Be silent, Frigg! | thou art Fjorgyn's wife,
But ever lustful in love;
For Vili and Ve, | thou wife of Vithrir,
Both in thy bosom have lain."
Frigg spake:
27. "If a son like Baldr | were by me now,
Here within Ægir's hall,
From the sons of the gods | thou shouldst go not forth
Till thy fierceness in fight were tried."
Loki spake:
28. "Thou wilt then, Frigg, | that further I tell
Of the ill that now I know;
Mine is the blame | that Baldr no more
Thou seest ride home to the hall."
Freyja spake:
29. "Mad art thou, Loki, | that known thou makest
The wrong and shame thou hast wrought;
The fate of all | does Frigg know well,
Though herself she says it not."
Loki spake:
30. "Be silent, Freyja! | for fully I know thee,
Sinless thou art not thyself;
Of the gods and elves | who are gathered here,
Each one as thy lover has lain."
[24. Samsey: perhaps the Danish island of Samsö. Othin was the god of magic, but there is no other reference to his ever having
disguised himself as a witch.
25. Frigg: Othin's wife; cf. note to introductory prose.
26. Fjorgyn: Othin; cf. Voluspo, 56 and note. Vili and Ve: Othin's brothers, who appear merely as, with Othin, the sons of Bur and Bestla; cf.
Voluspo, 4. The Ynglingasaga says that, during one of Othin's protracted absences, his two brothers took Frigg as their mistress. Vithrir:
another name for Othin.
27. On the death of Baldr, slain through Loki's cunning by the blind Hoth, cf. Voluspo, 32 and note.
29. Freyja: daughter of Njorth and sister of Freyr; cf. note on introductory prose. Snorri, in speaking of Frigg's knowledge of the future, makes a
stanza out of Lokasenna, 21, 1; 47, 2; 29, 3-4, thus: "Mad art thou, Loki, | and little of wit, / Why, Loki, leavst thou this not? / The fate of all |
does Frigg know well, / Though herself she says it not."
30. According to Snorri, Freyja was a model of fidelity to her husband, Oth.]
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Loki kvað:
26. "Þegi þú, Frigg, þú ert Fjörgyns mær
ok hefr æ vergjörn verit, er þá Véa ok Vilja
léztu þér, Viðris kvæn, báða i baðm of tekit."
Frigg kvað:
27. "Veiztu, ef ek inni ættak Ægis höllum i
Baldri líkan bur, út þú né kvæmir
frá ása sonum, ok væri þá at þér vreiðum vegit."
Loki kvað:
28. "Enn vill þú, Frigg, at ek fleiri telja
mína meinstafi:
ek því réð, er þú ríða sér-at
síðan Baldr at sölum."
Freyja kvað:
29. "Ærr ertu, Loki, er þú yðra telr
ljóta leiðstafi;
örlög Frigg, hygg ek, at öll viti,
þótt hon sjalfgi segi."
Loki kvað:
30. "Þegi þú, Freyja, þik kann ek fullgörva,
er-a þér vamma vant:
ása ok alfa, er hér inni eru,
hverr hefir þinn hór verit."
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