“Then Odin drew out the ring, and covered the hair, saying that they were now delivered from their debt for the slaying of the otter. But when Odin had taken his spear, and Loki his shoes, and they had no longer any need to be afraid, then Loki declared that the curse which Andvari had uttered should be fulfilled : that this ring and this gold should be the destruction of him who received it ; and that was fulfilled afterward.”

— The Prose Edda (Brodeur 1916), Skáldskaparmál XXXIX · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan