Regin`s Tale part 2
Thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold, and cover it over without with red gold; to they sent Loki to gather gold together for them: he came to Ran, and got her net, and went therewith to Andvari`s force, and cast the net before the pike, and the pike ran into the net and was taken. Then said Loki
“ `What fish of all fishes,
Swims strong in the flood,
But hath learnt little wit to beware? Thine head must thou buy, From abiding in hell,
And find me the wan waters flame.`
He answered
“ `Andvari folk call me,
Call Oinn my father,
Over many a force have I fared; For a Norn of ill-luck,
This life on me lay Through wet ways ever to wade.`
“So Loki beheld the gold of Andvari, and when he had given up the gold, he had but one ring left, and that also Loki took from him; then the dwarf went into a hollow of the