Singasteinn

"Singing stone", "Chanting stone." A verse from the tenth-century skaldic poem Húsdrápa by Úlfr Uggason, and quoted by Snorri Sturluson, mentions Singasteinn as the place where Heimdallr contended with Loki over a precious stone (sea-kidney):

The famed rain-bow's defender,

Ready in wisdom, striveth

At Singasteinn with Loki,

Fárbauti's sin-sly offspring;

The son of mothers eight and one,

Mighty in wrath, possesses

The Stone ere Loki cometh;

I make known songs of praise.

Snorri makes this stone or object they fought over the Brísinga-men, the famed necklace of Freyja, and adds that they were in seal form.

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