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In chapter 34, High describes Loki, and says that Loki had three children with a female jötunn named Angrboða located in the land of Jötunheimr ; Fenrisúlfr, the serpent Jörmungandr, and the female being Hel.
Loki tells her to be silent, and says that he knows all about herthat Freyja is not lacking in blame, for each of the gods and elves in the hall have been her lover.
She says that Loki is lying, that he is just looking to blather about misdeeds, and since the gods and goddesses are furious at him, he can expect to go home defeated.
Njörðr interjects — he says that a woman having a lover other than her husband is harmless, and he points out that Loki has borne children, and calls Loki a pervert.
Loki says that he will go into the feast, and that, before the end of the feast, he will induce quarrelling among the gods, and " mix their mead with malice.
Breaking the silence, Loki says that, thirsty, he had come to these halls from a long way away to ask the gods for a drink of " the famous mead.
Odin says that Loki must be insane to make Gefjun his enemy, as her wisdom about the fates of men may equal Odin's own.
Loki says that Odin does a poor job in handing out honor in war to men, and that he's often given victory to the faint-hearted.
Frigg, a major goddess and Odin's wife, says that what Loki and Odin did in the ancient past should not be spoken of in front of others, and that ancient matters should always remain hidden.
Freyr himself interrupts at this point, and says that he sees a wolf lying before a river mouth, and that, unless Loki is immediately silent, like the wolf, Loki shall also be bound until Ragnarök.
Byggvir ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that if he had as noble a lineage and as an honorable a seat as Freyr, he would grind down Loki, and make all of his limbs lame.
Loki refers to Byggvir in terms of a dog, and says that Byggvir is always found at Freyr's ears, or twittering beneath a grindstone.
The god Heimdallr says that Loki is drunk and witless, and asks Loki why he won't stop speaking.
The goddess Skaði says that while Loki now appears light-hearted and " playing " with his " tail-wagging ," he will soon be bound with his ice-cold son's guts on a sharp rock by the gods.
Loki says that, even if this is his fate, that he was " first and foremost " with the other gods at the killing of Skaði's father, jötnar Þjazi.
Skaði says that, with these events in mind, " baneful advice " will always come from her " sanctuaries and plains " to Loki.
Continuing the poem, Sif welcomes Loki and invites him to take a crystal cup filled with ancient mead, and says that among the children of the Æsir, she is singularly blameless.
Loki " takes the horn ," drinks it, and says that she would be, if it were so, and states that Sif had a lover beside Thor, namely, Loki himself ( an event that is otherwise unattested ).
Acknowledging that Thor has arrived, Loki asks Thor why he is raging, and says that Thor won't be so bold to fight against the wolf when he swallows Odin at Ragnarök.

Loki and Skaði
In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki's face, from which venom drips.
The guts of " Nari or Narfi " are then used to tie Loki to three stones, after which the guts turn to iron, and Skaði places a snake above Loki.
Even so, the gods themselves were related to the giants by many marriages, and there are giants such as Ægir, Loki, Mímir and Skaði, who bear little difference in status to them.
In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, Skaði is responsible for placing the serpent that drips venom onto the bound Loki.
Scholars have theorized a potential connection between Skaði and the god Ullr ( who is also associated with skiing and appears most frequently in place names in Sweden ), a particular relationship with the jötunn Loki, and that Scandinavia may be related to the name Skaði ( potentially meaning " Skaði's island ") or the name may be connected to an Old Norse noun meaning " harm ".
After Loki has an exchange with the god Heimdallr, Skaði interjects.
Skaði tells Loki that he is " light-hearted " and that Loki will not be " playing [...] with tail wagging free " for much longer, for soon the gods will bind Loki to a sharp rock with the ice-cold entrails of his son.
Loki responds that Skaði was more friendly in speech when Skaði was in his bedan accusation he makes to most of the goddesses in the poem and is not attested elsewhere.
Skaði is described as having taken a venomous snake and fastening it above the bound Loki, so that the venom may dip on to Loki's face.
Loki dropped into Skaði's lap, and Skaði laughed, completing this part of her atonement.
Lindow notes that Loki and Skaði appear to have had a special relationship, an example being Skaði's placement of the snake over Loki's face in Lokasenna and Gylfaginning.

Loki and was
That Bragi was also the first to speak to Loki in the Lokasenna as Loki attempted to enter the hall might be a parallel.
Loki used a loophole to get out of the wager for his head ( the wager was for Loki's head only, but he argued that, to remove his head, they would have to injure his neck, which was not in the bargain ) and Brokkr punished him by sealing his lips shut with wire.
When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom.
Because Loki was Odin's blood brother?
Loki tells Freyja to be silent, calls her a malicious witch, and conjures a scenario where Freyja was once astride her brother when all of the gods, laughing, surprised the two.
Loki witnessed this and was angered by Baldr's invulnerability.
All things did but a giantess by the name of Þökk, regarding whom Snorri writes that " people believe that the giantess was Loki.
Modern scholars such as Lee Hollander explain that Lokasenna was intended to be humorous and that the accusations thrown by Loki in the poem are not necessarily to be taken as " generally accepted lore " at the time it was composed.
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Tricked and guided by Loki, he shot the mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.
" Loki responds to Gefjun by stating that Gefjun's heart was once seduced by a " white boy " who gave her a jewel, and who Gefjun laid her thigh over.
Frigg responds that if there was a boy like her now-deceased son Baldr in the hall, Loki would not be able to escape from the wrath of the gods.
In response, Loki calls Freyja a malicious witch, and claims that Freyja was once astride her brother Freyr, when all of the other laughing gods surprised her, Freyja then farted.
The god Tyr defends Freyr, to which Loki replies that Tyr should be silent, for Tyr cannot " deal straight with people ," and points out that it was Loki's son, the wolf Fenrir, who tore Tyr's hand off.
Loki tells Heimdallr to be silent, that he was fated a " hateful life ," that Heimdallr must always have a muddy back, and serve as watchman of the gods.
Loki states that Thor should never brag of his journeys to the east, claiming that there Thor crouched cowering in the thumb of a glove, mockingly referring to him as a " hero ," and adding that such behaviour was unlike Thor.
The narrative continues that Loki was bound with the entrails of his son Nari, and his son Narfi changed into a wolf.
" Loki states that it was indeed an effort, and also a success, for he has discovered that Þrymr has the hammer, but that it cannot be retrieved unless Freyja is brought to Þrymr as his wife.
The prose introduction to Reginsmál details that, while the hero Sigurd was being fostered by Regin, son of Hreidmar, Regin tells him that once the gods Odin, Hœnir, and Loki went to Andvara-falls, which contained many fish.
Gylfi is furthermore informed that when Loki had engendered Hel, she was cast into Niflheimr by Odin:

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