Then Loki gave to Odin the spear Gugner, and to Thor the hair that Sif
was to have, and to Frey Skidbladnir, and told them what virtues those
things possessed. Brock took out his articles, and gave to Odin the
ring, and told him that every ninth night there would drop from it eight
other rings as valuable as itself. To Frey he gave the boar, and said
that it would run through air and water, by night and by day, better
than any horse, and that never was there night so dark that the way by
which he went would not be light from his hide. The hammer he gave to
Thor, and said that it would never fail to hit a troll, and that at
whatever he threw it, it would never miss the mark, and that Thor could
never throw it so far that it would not return to his hand. It would
also, when Thor chose, become so small that he could put it in his
pocket. The only fault of the hammer was that its handle was a little
too short.
Their judgment was that the hammer was the best of all the things before
them, and that the dwarf had won his wager. Then Loki prayed hard not to
lose his head, but the dwarf said that could not be.
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