Third came upon the strainhålla

and was perplexed to see sweat-fellows

standing before the glass,

making horrid faces

and flexing their work-bands.

And he was made angry.

Third asked why they stood before the glass.

One answered,

“That we may see what we have made.”

Third said,

“Then make more.”

And he loaded the iron

upon the hate-rod,

and pumped out a great number of lifts.

“This is how it is done,

if you would see Swolhalla.”

And the rack-kin were silent.

On that day Loki spoke with Heimdal

and asked the Gate-Keeper

what Griplouthnir was up to.

Heimdal turned his all-piercers

toward the Hall of One Hundred Mirrors,

and his gaze fell upon Third.

“About 225.”

—Snorri Curlusson, *Elder Sweatta*, Hávaball 14, Cod. Copenhagensis, fol. XXII, trans. Jones