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"The villain confesses that he has stolen my hammer, and boasts that he is Thunder Lord! Gr-r-r!" "The ugly giant!" wailed Freia. "Must I be the bride of that hideous old monster, and live in his gloomy mountain prison all my life?" "Yes; put on your bridal veil, sweet Freia," said Loki maliciously, "and come with me to Jotunheim.
Fasolt does not fall in willingly with the arrangement which shall give them the gold in place of the woman; he has been overpersuaded by the black brother; his regret at losing Freia is so great, he tells the gods, that the treasure, if she is to be relinquished, will have to be piled so high as completely to hide the blooming maid.
In later years he and Emilie met again. Wagner gave her the pet name of "Sieglinde," and told her that she should illumine his Walhalla as Freia, the eternal, blue-eyed, gold-haired goddess of spring. According to Belart, Minna was the inspiration for Wotan's virtuous but nagging wife Fricka! Frau Wille was another torment to Minna, but Frau Wesendonck was more.
"Let it be measured according to Freia's stature!" decrees Wotan, and the giants drive their great staves into the earth so that they roughly frame the figure of Freia. Helped by Loge and Froh, they begin stopping the space between with the treasure.
But now what Law is left to these two poor stupid laborers whereby one shall yield to the other any of the treasure for which they have each paid the whole price in surrendering Freia? They look by mere habit to the god to judge for them; but he, with his heart stirring towards higher forces than himself, turns with disgust from these lower forces.
This was indeed a gracious gift; for Freia was the most beautiful maid in the world, and her twin brother was almost as fair. To the Vanir in return Father Odin gave his own brother Hœnir. And with Hœnir he sent Mimer the wise, whom he took from his lonely well.
"Be still, chatterer!... Freia the good, Freia must be ransomed!" Loge drops the subject and offers his services as guide. "Shall we descend through the Rhine?" The Rhine, with its infesting nymphs?... "Not through the Rhine!" says Wotan. "Then through the sulphur-cleft slip down with me!"
"Ask what else you please, you shall have it; but not for the whole world will I give up the ring." Fasolt instantly lays hands again upon Freia and draws her from behind the Hort. "Everything then stands as it stood before. Freia shall come with us now for good and all." An outcry of appeal goes up from all the gods to Wotan. He turns from them unmoved. "Trouble me not.
She was fairer than fair, and sweeter than sweet, and the tears from her flower eyes made the dew which blessed the earth flowers night and morning. Of her Thor borrowed the magic dress of feathers in which Freia was wont to clothe herself and flit like a great beautiful bird all about the world.
"Someone is coming from Asgard only one of Odin's children could make a din so fearful. Hasten, men, and see if they are bringing Freia to be my wife." Then the lookout giant stepped down from the top of his mountain, and said that a chariot was bringing two maidens to the door. "Run, giants, run!" shouted Thrym, in a fever at this news. "My bride is coming!
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