How Thor got his hammer（1）

Sif had long golden hair. Thor was very proud of Sif's golden hair. Thor was always going on long journeys. One day he went off and left Sif alone. She went out on the porch and fell asleep. Loki came along. He was always playing tricks. He saw Sif lying asleep. He said, "I am going to cut off her hair." So Loki went up on the porch and cut off Sif's golden hair. When Sif woke up and saw that her hair was gone, she cried and cried.
有天夜里，洛基趁着托尔的妻子，女神西夫睡觉的时候，把她的头发给剪了。现在洛基绝望的在托尔的威胁下挣扎着。

Then she ran to hide. She did not want Thor to see her. When Thor came home, he could not find Sif. "Sif! Sif!" he called, "Where are you?". But Sif did not answer. Thor looked all around the house. At last he found her crying." Oh, Thor, look, all my hair is gone! Somebody has cut it off. It was a man. He ran away with it. "Then Thor was very angry. He said, "I know it was Loki. He is always getting into mischief. Just wait until I get him! "And Thor went out to find Loki. Pretty soon he found him. Thor said, "Did you cut off Sif's hair?" Loki said, "Yes, I did." "Then you must pay for cutting off my wife's hair," said Thor. "All right," said Loki, "I will get you something better than the hair." Loki went down, down into the ground to the home of the dwarfs. It was very dark down there. The only light came from the dwarfs' fires. The dwarfs were ugly little black men. They were not any bigger than your thumb. They had crooked backs and crooked legs. Their eyes looked like black beads. Loki said, "Can you make me a gold crown that will grow like real hair?"
就在托尔准备实行他的诺言，打断洛基的每一根骨头的时候。洛基向他保证他将给西夫打造一头更漂亮的秀发，比之前的还要漂亮。他将为西夫打造一头纯金的头发。
听到了洛基的话，托尔冷静了下来。并要求洛基去实现他的承诺，否则他会毫不犹豫的实现他自己的诺言----打断托尔的每一根骨头。洛基不打算食言，但也不打算仅仅履行承诺。于是他跑到了世界上最精巧的工匠，小矮人们居住的洞穴里。他首先找到了两个小矮人，伊瓦尔迪的儿子们，委托他们为女神西尔打造一头纯金的秀发。

The dwarfs said, "Yes, we can." So the busy little dwarfs worked all night. When morning came the dwarfs gave Loki his crown of golden hair. They gave him a spear and a ship, too. Loki took the things up to Asgard, where the gods all lived.
Then the gods all came up to him. He showed them the things. The gods said, "They are very wonderful." And Loki said, "Oh, nobody else can make such things as my little dwarfs." A little dwarf, named Brok, was standing near by. He heard Loki say that. Then he stepped up and said, "My brother can make just as good things as these." Loki laughed and said, "If you can get three things as wonderful as these, I will give you my head." Brok went down into the ground where his little dwarfs were working. Brok's brother was named Sindre. He said to his brother, "Loki says that you can't make such nice things as his dwarfs can. He said that he would give me his head if I could get him such wonderful things as his." This made the dwarfs angry. Their eyes grew big.
They said, "He will see what we can do." Sindre wanted to know what the wonderful things were. Brok said, "Loki has a golden crown that will grow like real hair. A ship that can go anywhere.