Stanza 105

Original Old Norse:	Auden & Taylor:	Bellows:	Bray:
Gunnlöð mér um gaf gullnum stóli á drykk ins dýra mjaðar ill iðgjöld lét ek hana eptir hafa síns ins heila hugar síns ins svára sefa	Rati had gnawed a narrow passage, Chewed a channel through stone, A path around the roads of giants: I was like to lose my head	The mouth of Rati | made room for my passage, And space in the stone he gnawed; Above and below | the giants' paths lay, So rashly I risked my head.	103. I bored me a road there with Rati's tusk and made room to pass through the rock; while the ways of the Jötuns stretched over and under, I dared my life for a draught.
Chisholm:	Hollander:	Terry:	Thorpe:
The auger bored and made me room gnawed through stone, over and under were the ettin ways. Thus I risked my head.	With an auger I there ate my way, through the rocks I made me room! over and under were teh etins' paths; Thus dared I life and limb.	With a drill's teeth I cut my trail, I gnawed right through the rock; over and under me wound the giants' ways -- a perilous path I traveled.	107. Rati’s mouth I caused to make a space, and to gnaw the rock; over and under me were the Jötun’s ways: thus I my head did peril.
Bellow's note: Rati ("the Traveller"): the gimlet with which Othin bored through the mountain to reach Suttung's home
Even though the way through was perilous, he risked his life just on the promise of a drink. How many times have we done this ourselves? We know the way is dangerous, but we value the reward at the end more than our own lives.