Then said Loki --
"`What fish of all fishes,
Swims strong in the flood,
But hath learnt little wit to beware?
Thine head must thou buy,
From abiding in hell,
And find me the wan waters flame.'
"He answered --
"`Andvari folk call me,
Call Oinn my father,
Over many a force have I fared;
For a Norn of ill-luck,
This life on me lay
Through wet ways ever to wade.'
"So Loki beheld the gold of Andvari, and when he had given up the
gold, he had but one ring left, and that also Loki took from him;
then the dwarf went into a hollow of the rocks, and cried out,
that that gold-ring, yea and all the gold withal, should be the
bane of every man who should own it thereafter.
"Now the gods rode with the treasure to Hreidmar, and fulfilled
the otter-skin, and set it on its feet, and they must cover it
over utterly with gold: but when this was done then Hreidmar came
forth, and beheld yet one of the muzzle hairs, and bade them
cover that withal; then Odin drew the ring, Andvari's loom, from
his hand, and covered up the hair therewith; then sang Loki --
"`Gold enow, gold enow,
A great weregild, thou hast,
That my head in good hap I may hold;
But thou and thy son
Are naught fated to thrive,
The bane shall it be of you both.
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