That Sinmara will only award the weapon to one who brings her the tail feather of the cock creates an insurmountable paradox to obtaining it. Fjölsviðr insinuates that a man may succeed in obtaining the weapon Lævateinn if a man carries a certain hard-to-obtain item to Sinmora (here she is referred to as "eir aurglasis" or "the goddess of gold"). Svipdag in turn inquires what treasure it is that would so delight Sinmara ("fǫlva gýgr" or "the giantess pale"). Fjölsviðr then replies Svipdagr must bring the "bright sickle" to Sinmara, and then she will give Lævateinn to Svipdagr: