**Stanza 45:** Ægir is mentioned in relation to the feasts he prepares for the Æsir.
‘I have now lifted my fleeting disguises before the sons of the victory gods;
with that, welcome relief shall awake;
for all the Æsir it shall come inside,
to Ægir’s benches,
at Ægir’s drinking feast.
**Stanza 1-2-3:** Ægir is told by Odinn to make feasts for the Æsir, but he tells them that Thor needs to go fetch a cauldron large enough for it.
1. Early, the gods of the slain caught game,
and were eager for a feast, before they were full;
they shook twigs and inspected sacrificial blood,
they found at Ægir’s an ample choice of cauldrons.
2. The cliff-dweller sat there, merry as a child,
much like the son of a mash-blender;
Yggr’s child looked into his eyes in defiance:
‘You shall often make drinking-feasts for the Æsir!’
3. The word-trying man made work for the giant,
he brooded revenge at once against the god;
he called on Sif’s husband20 to bring him a cauldron:
‘the one in which I can brew ale for you all!’
**Stanza 39:** Ægir is mention again, as he will have to make the ale for the Æsir.
The one of great strength came to the gods’ assembly,
and he had the cauldron, the one which Hymir owned;
and holy ones shall drink ale well
at Ægir’s [home] each venom-rope-cutter
**Prose Introduction:** Ægir is mentioned in relation to the feast he is giving to the Æsir.
About Ægir and the Gods
Ægir, who by another name was called Gymir, had brewed ale for the Æsir, after he had received the great cauldron, as has now been said.
To that feast came Óðinn and Frigg, his wife. Þórr did not come, because he was on the east-way. Sif, Þórr’s wife, was there, and Bragi and Iðunn, his wife. Týr was there. He was one-handed: Fenrisúlfr bit off his hand when he was bound. Njǫrðr was there, as was his wife, Skaði, Freyr and Freyja, [and] Víðarr, Óðinn’s son. Loki was there, and Freyr’s servants, Byggvir and Beyla. Many of the Æsir and elves were there.
Ægir had two serving-men, Fimafengr and Eldir. Shining gold was used there instead of firelight. Ale served itself there. It was a great place of sanctuary. People were full of praise for how good Ægir’s serving-men were. Loki could not bear to hear that, and he slew Fimafengr.
Then the Æsir shook their shields and screamed at Loki, and chased him away to the forest, and they went to drink. Loki turned back and met Eldir outside.
**Stanza 65:** Loki curses Ægir before leaving.
‘Ale you have brewed, Ægir, but never again
will you prepare a feast;
may flame play over all your possessions
which are inside here,
and burn you on the back!’
Throughout the poem, “Ægir’s halls” are mentioned constantly, since the narrative takes place there.
**Stanza 29:** A wave is referred as “awful daughter of Ægir.
Helgi had the high sail drawn higher,
the crew did not shrink from the meeting with the waves,
when an awful daughter of Ægir
wanted to capsize the stay-bridle-horses
There are no attestations of Ægir in Gylfaginning.