...Asgard or Midgard, — namely, the footfalls of a cat, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of birds. One could believe almost anything of a chain made of such things. It is no wonder that it was...

...made of six strange materials: the foot-falls of a cat, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of birds. How the elves ever managed to procure these strange things is a mystery; but the chain, although...

...that, to be sure, was made of the noise of a cat's paw, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of. a bird. The wolf was not willing that the slender and insignificant fetter should be placed upon him, since...

...subtle forces which the old Norsemen symbolized in the chain that bound the Fenris Wolf — forged of " the noise a cat makes in footfall, the beard of a...breath of a fish, and the spittle of a bird" — and the sudden snapping of this chain makes the children of immigrants intellectually barren. Those of...

...of six things: the noise a cat makes when it moves, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish and the spittle of a bird. Now, although you may not have known this before, you can easily prove that you are not being told...

...with a silken ribbon. "This fetter is made of six impossible things," one said. "The noise of a cat's foot-fall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a rock,...the breath of a fish, and the spittle of a bird." Skirnir carried the magic fetter back to Asgard. The gods thanked him profusely. Then they journeyed...

...of six things: the sound of the footstep of a cat, the beard of a woman, the root of a steep rugged rock, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spit of a bird. And although you still don't understand this matter well, you will have the proof that...