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\, , “Ss, , A., , mprehension, , 1., 2., 3., , He wanted to request them to make a crown of golden hair for Sif., , Brokkr was standing by and heard Loki boasting. :, , The bet was that if Sindri could make three such precious things as the spear, theship.and the, golden hair, he could have Loki’s head for his trouble., , The ship always found a breeze to drive it wherever its master would go and which could be, , folded up and carried in one’s pocket., He got the dwarfs to make a crown of golden hair for Sif. The crowd did what it was supposed to, , do and all of Sif’s beautiful hair grew back., , a. He laughed because he could not believe a dwarf was challenging or correcting him., , b. It tells that he is very arrogant., , c. Brokkr went straightaway and told Sindr about the bet. The dwarfs immediately began work at, , their smithy., He tricked Brokkr. He knew that there was no way his head could be cut off without touching, , his neck., b. He probably felt very angry and humiliated., , The dwarfs at the beginning of the text gave Loki three things. They were a spear which, , never misses its mark, a crown of golden hair for Sif which restored all her beautiful hair and, , a marvellous ship which always found a breeze to drive it wherever its master would go and, which could be folded up and carried in one's pocket. Loki gave Odin the spear and Freyja the, , ship., Brokkr kept working steadily, although a gadfly flew in and stung him so hard that he could, , hardly bear the pain. After a while, Sindri came back and took a wonderful boar and a shining, , ring out of the furnace. Then Sindri put iron into the fire, and telling Brokkr to blow without, ceasing, went out again. As soon as he had left, the gadfly flew in and, settling between, Brokkr’s eyes, stung him so sharply that drops of blood ran down into his eyes. The pain was, , 190
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so bad that at last he raised his ; ; t, Sindri, returned took a wonderful hamne quickly to brush the fly away. That very instant,, , ° had been, distracted, the handle was a litte e, Out of the glowing furnace. Because Brokkr, , Ss Y ort but otherwise the hammer was perfect., , 3. Brokkr took the three Gifts to the palace of the gods. The gods were waiting and when they saw, him they took their places on their shining thrones. Brokkr then gave Odin a ring. The ring would,, on every ninth night, create eight other rings as pure and heavy as itself. He then gave a boar to, Freyja. The boar would run more quickly in the air, and on the sea, by night or by day, than the, swiftest horse. No night will be so dark, no world so gloomy, that the shining of its bristles shall, not make it as bright as day. Then he gave Thor the hammer, He told Thor that the hammer would, never fail, no matter how big nor how hard that which it strikes may be. And no matter how far it, is thrown, it would always return to Thor's hand—and Thor could make it so small that it can be, , hidden in his bosom, and its Only fault is the shortness of its handle., , (4 The gods were delighted with the hammer. Thor swung it round his head, and lightning flashed, , “~~ through palace and deep peals of thunder rolled through the sky. The gods gathered around,, and passed the hammer from one to the other, saying that it would be their greatest protection, , against their enemies. They were so happy with this powerful weapon that they declared Brokkr, the winner of the bet., , D. tis not clear if Loki played the trick with this objective in mind. He seems to have just meant some, mischief but as events played out, he might have seen how the gifts could benefit the gods and, through them benefit the world. Loki is a clever and cunning god so he might easily have realised, how to change things for the better even though they had not started out well.
