Editing Lokasenna (section)

==Excerpts==
Thorpe's Translation.<ref name=THORPEPOETIC>[[Benjamin Thorpe|Thorpe, Benjamin]]. (Trans.). (1866). ''Edda Sæmundar Hinns Froða: The Edda Of Sæmund The Learned''. (2 vols.) London: Trübner & Co. 1866.</ref>

*Loki:
:"Hail, Æsir!
:Hail, Asyniur!
:And ye, all-holy gods!
:all, save that one man,
:who sits within there,
:Bragi, on yonder bench."

*Bragi:
:"I know that were I without,
:as I am now within,
:the hall of Ægir,
:I thy head would
:bear in my hand,
:and so for lying punish thee."

*Loki:
:"Valiant on thy seat art thou, Bragi!
:but so thou shouldst not be,
:Bragi, the bench's pride!
:Go and fight,
:if thou art angry;
:a brave man sits not considering."

Idunn stepped in to protect her husband.

*Idunn:
:"I [[pray thee]], Bragi!
:let avail the bond of children,
:and of all adopted sons,
:and to Loki speak not
:in reproachful words,
:in Ægir's hall."

*Loki:
:"Be silent, Idunn!
:of all women I declare thee
:most fond of men,
:since thou thy arms,
:carefully washed, didst twine
:round thy brother's murderer."

*Idunn:
:"Loki I address not
:with opprobrious words,
:in Ægir's hall.
:Bragi I soothe,
:by beer excited.
:I desire not that angry ye fight."

*Gefjun:
:"Why will ye, Æsir twain,
:here within,
:strive with reproachful words?
:Lopt perceives not
:that he is deluded,
:and is urged on by fate."

*Loki:
:"Be silent, Gefjun!
:I will now just mention,
:how that fair youth
:thy mind corrupted,
:who thee a necklace gave,
:and around whom thou thy limbs didst twine?"

Odin interfered, but Loki called him "unmanly" as well.

*Odin:
:"Knowest thou that I gave
:to those I ought not –
:victory to cowards?
:Thou was eight winters
:on the earth below,
:milked cow as a woman,
:and didst there bear children.
:Now that, methinks, betokens a base nature."

*Loki:
:"But, it is said, thou wentest
:with tottering steps in Samsö,
:and knocked at houses as a Vala. <small>([[Völva|Vala]]: seeress)</small>
:In likeness of a fortune teller,
:thou wentest among people;
:Now that, methinks, betokens a base nature."

Frigg tried to defend her husband.

*Frigg:
:"Your doings
:ye should never
:publish among men,
:what ye, Æsir twain,
:did in days of yore.
:Ever forgotten be men's former deeds!"

*Loki:
:"Be thou silent, Frigg!
:Thou art [[Fjorgynn]]'s daughter,
:and ever hast been lustful,
:since Ve and Vili, it is said,
:thou, Vidrir's wife, didst <small>(Vidrir: another name of Odin, [[Vili and Vé|Ve]] and [[Vili]]: Odin's brothers)</small>
:both to thy bosom take."

*Freyja:
:"Mad art thou, Loki!
:in recounting
:thy foul misdeeds.
:Frigg, I believe,
:knows all that happens,
:although she says it not."

*Loki:
:"Be thou silent, Freyja!
:I know thee full well;
:thou art not free from vices:
:of the Æsir and the Alfar,
:that are herein,
:each has been thy paramour."

*Freyja:
:"False is thy tongue.
:Henceforth it will, I think,
:prate no good to thee.
:Wroth with thee are the Æsir,
:and the Asyniur.
:Sad shalt thou home depart."

*Loki:
:"Be silent, Freyja!
:Thou art a sorceress,
:and with much evil blended;
:since against thy brother thou
:the gentle powers excited.
:And then, Freyja! what didst thou do?"

*Njörðr:
:"It is no great wonder,
:if silk-clad dames
:get themselves husbands, lovers;
:but 'tis a wonder that a wretched man,
:that has borne children, <small>(i.e. the horse [[Sleipnir]])</small>
:should herein enter."

*Loki:
:"Cease now, Njörðr!
:in bounds contain thyself;
:I will no longer keep it secret:
:it was with thy sister
:thou hadst such a son <small>(i.e. Freyr)</small>
:hardly worse than thyself."

*Týr:
:"Freyr is best
:of all the exalted gods
:in the Æsir's courts:
:no maid he makes to weep,
:no wife of man,
:and from bonds looses all."

Not only mocking Týr's wound (his arm was bitten by Fenrir), Loki also called him a cuckold.

*Loki:
:"Be silent, Týr;
:to thy wife it happened
:to have a son by me.
:Nor rag nor penny ever
:hadst thou, poor wretch!
:for this injury."

*Freyr:
:"I the wolf see lying <small>(The wolf: Loki is father of [[Fenrir]])</small>
:at the river's mouth,
:until the powers are swept away.
:So shalt thou be bound,
:if thou art not silent,
:thou framer of evil."

*Loki:
:"With gold thou boughtest
:Gýmir's daughter, <small>(i.e. Freyr's wife, [[Gerðr|Gerd]])</small>
:and so gavest away thy sword:
:but when Muspell's sons <small>(i.e. Fire Giants, whose leader would slay the unarmed Freyr at Ragnarök)</small>
:through the dark forest ride,
:thou, unhappy, wilt not
:have wherewith to fight."

*Heimdallr:
:"Loki, thou art drunk,
:and hast lost thy wits.
:Why dost thou not leave off, Loki?
:But drunkenness
:so rules every man,
:that he knows not of his garrulity."

*Loki:
:"Be silent, Heimdallr!
:For thee in early days
:was that hateful life decreed:
:with a wet back
:thou must ever be,
:and keep watch as guardian of the gods."

*Skaði:
:"Thou art merry, Loki!
:Not long wilt thou
:frisk with an unbound tail;
:for thee, on a rock's point,
:with the entrails of thy ice-cold son,
:the gods will bind."

*Loki:
:"Milder was thou of speech
:to Laufey's son, <small>([[Laufey (mythology)|Laufey]]´s son: the giant Loki)</small>
:when to thy bed thou didst invite me.
:Such matters must be mentioned,
:if we accurately must
:recount our vices."

Sif went to pour for Loki.

*Sif:
:"Hail to thee, Loki!
:and this cool cup receive,
:full of old mead:
:at least me alone,
:among the blameless Æsir race,
:leave stainless."

*Loki:
:"So alone shouldst thou be,
:hadst thou strict and prudent been
:towards thy mate;
:but one I know,
:and, I think, know him well,
:a favoured rival of Hlorridi,
:and that is the wily Loki."

After this, Thor came in and drove Loki away.

*Thor:
:"Silence, thou impure being!
:My mighty hammer, Mjöllnir,
:shall stop thy prating.
:I will thy head
:from thy neck strike;
:then will thy life be ended."