Editing Byggvir (section)

==''Lokasenna''==
In ''Lokasenna'', Loki is depicted as degrading Byggvir for being of slight stature and as a gossiper:

Stanza 43:
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:Byggvir qvaþ: 
:«Veiztv, ef ec øþli ettac 
:sem Ingvnar-Freyr 
:oc sva selict setr, 
:mergi smera ma/lþa ec 
:þa meíncráco 
:oc lemþa alla i liþo.»
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:Byggvir spake:
:Had I birth so famous
:as Ingunar-[[Freyr]],
:And sat in so lofty a seat,
:I would crush to marrow
:this croaker of ill,
:And beat all his body to bits."<ref name=BELLOWSLOKASENNA>[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]]' 1936 translation of ''Lokasenna''. Available online: [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe10.htm]</ref>
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Stanza 44:
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:Loci qvaþ: 
:«Hvat er þat iþ litla, 
:er ec þat la/ggra sec 
:oc snapvist snapir; 
:at eyrom Freys 
:mvnðv e vera 
:oc vnd kvernom klaca.»
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:Loki spake:
:"What little creature
:goes crawling there,
:Snuffling and snapping about?
:At Freyr's ears ever
:wilt thou be found,
:Or muttering hard at the mill."<ref name=BELLOWSLOKASENNA/>
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Stanza 45:
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:Beyggvir qvaþ: 
:«Beyggvir ec heíti, 
:enn mic braþan qveþa 
:goð a/ll oc gvmar: 
:þvi em ec her hroðvgr, 
:at drecca Hroptz megir 
:allir a/l saman.»
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:Byggvir spake:
:"Byggvir my name,
:and nimble am I,
:As gods and men do grant;
:And here am I proud
:that the children of [[List of names of Odin|Hropt]]
:Together all drink ale."<ref name=BELLOWSLOKASENNA/>
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Stanza 46:
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:Loci qvaþ: 
:«Þegi þv, Byggvir! 
:þv kvnnir aldregi 
:deila meþ monnom mat; 
:oc þic i fletz strá 
:finna ne mattv, 
:þa er vago verar.»
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:Loki spake:
:"Be silent, Byggvir!
:thou never couldst set
:Their shares of the meat for men;
:Hid in straw on the floor,
:they found thee not
:When heroes were fain to fight."<ref name=BELLOWSLOKASENNA/>
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