Freyr and Gerd by Emil Doepler 1905

"Freyr spake:

    "From Gymir's house | I beheld go forth
    A maiden dear to me;
    Her arms glittered, | and from their gleam
    Shone all the sea and sky.

    "To me more dear | than in days of old
    Was ever maiden to man;
    But no one of Gods | or elves will grant
    That we both together should be."

-Poetic Edda/Skírnismál, Stanzas 6-7

Emil Doepler illustration from Walhall: Die Götterwelt der Germanen (The Gods of the Teutons) 1905

Source:

https://boudicca.de/site/de/gmedia-album/emil-doepler/

 

Quote:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poetic_Edda/Sk%C3%ADrnism%C3%A1l