ABSTRACT
Telling the story of Skírnir’s wooing of the giantess Gerðr, Skírnismál consists mostly of dialogue. Freyr’s servant Skírnir sets off for the court of Gymir, the father of the giantess with whom Freyr has fallen in love from a distance. Gerðr is reluctant to succumb to Freyr and much of the poem consists of Skirnir’s threats before Gerðr concedes defeat. Skírnir returns to Freyr with the news that the girl has agreed to a rendezvous in nine nights’ time. The poem is composed in ljόðaháttr; in the curse-section the meter becomes increasingly irregular.
