Lokasenna

Lokasenna (Old Norse: 'The Flyting of Loki', or 'Loki's Verbal Duel')[1][2] is one of the poems of the Poetic Edda.

[3] Loki, amongst other things, accuses the gods of moralistic sexual impropriety, the practice of seiðr (sorcery), and bias.

Not ostensibly the most serious of allegations, these elements are, however, said ultimately to lead to the onset of Ragnarök in the Eddic poem Völuspá.

Lee M. Hollander, in his introduction to his translation of the poem, claims that it was in no sense a popular lay and suggests we should not necessarily believe that the accusations of the "sly god" were an accepted part of the lore.

In continuity, the prose introduction says: "Ægir, also named Gymir, had made ale for the Æsir, when he had received the great kettle of which was told" (see Hymiskviða).

Before Loki drains his draught, he utters a toast to the gods but pointedly excludes Bragi from it.

Bragi's response is that it would be contrary to the rules of correct behaviour to fight within his hosts' hall, but were they back in Asgard then things would be different.

The entrails of his son Nari are used to bind him to three rocks above which Skaði places a serpent to drip venom on him.

The text says that Loki's other son, Narfi, was turned into a wolf, but does not make clear that he tears his brother apart; also in the Gylfaginning version it is a son of Loki named Váli whom the Æsir transform into a wolf and who kills Narfi.

Not only mocking Týr's wound (his arm was bitten by Fenrir), Loki also called him a cuckold.