Then Skirnir rode home. Freyr stood without, and spoke to him, and asked for tidings:
41. "Tell me, Skimir, | ere thou take off the saddle,
Or farest forward a step:
What hast thou done | in the giants' dwelling
To make glad thee or me?"
Skirnir spoke:
42. "Barri there is, | which we both know well,
A forest fair and still;
And nine nights hence | to the son of Njorth
Will Gerth there grant delight."
Freyr spake:
43. "Long is one night, | longer are two;
How then shall I bear three?
Often to me | has a month seemed less
Than now half a night of desire."
[42. Abbreviated to initial letters in the manuscript.
43. The superscription is lacking in Regius. Snorri quotes this one stanza in his prose paraphrase, Gylfaginning, chapter 37 The two versions are
substantially the same, except that Snorri makes the first line read, "Long is one night, long is the second."]
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Skírnir kvađ:
41. "Barri heitir, er vit báđir vitum,
lundr lognfara;
en eft nćtr níu ţar mun Njarđar syni
Gerđr unna gamans."
Freyr kvađ:
42. "Löng er nótt, langar ro tvćr,
hvé of ţreyjak ţrjár?
Oft mér mánađr minni ţótti
en sjá half hýnótt."
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