Editing Brísingamen (section)

===''Prose Edda''===
''[[Húsdrápa]]'', a [[skald]]ic poem partially preserved in the ''[[Prose Edda]]'', relates the story of the theft of Brísingamen by [[Loki]]. One day when Freyja wakes up and finds Brísingamen missing, she enlists the help of [[Heimdallr]] to help her search for it. Eventually they find the thief, who turns out to be [[Loki]] who has transformed himself into a seal. Heimdallr turns into a seal as well and fights Loki (trans. Byock 2005):
{{Blockquote|...it was on this occasion that [Heimdall] and Loki came to blows over the ring of the Brisings. The skald Ulf Uggason devotes a lengthy passage to that story in his poem ''Husdrapa'', and it is stated there that Heimdall and Loki took on the shape of seals.}}
After a lengthy battle at [[Singasteinn]], Heimdallr wins and returns Brísingamen to Freyja.

[[Snorri Sturluson]] quoted this old poem in ''[[Skáldskaparmál]]'', saying that because of this legend Heimdallr is called "Seeker of Freyja's Necklace" (''Skáldskaparmál'', section 8) and Loki is called "Thief of Brísingamen" (''Skáldskaparmál'', section 16). A similar story appears in the later ''Sörla þáttr'', where Heimdallr does not appear.