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      They had no breath,

      They had no mind,

      Neither blood nor motion

      Nor proper complexion.

      Odin gave the breath,⁵²

      Hœnir gave the mind,

      Lodur gave the blood

      And befitting hues.

      (Völuspa.)

      Finally the Völva describes the end of the world.

      Eastward sat the old one

      In Jarnvid,⁵³

      And there bred

      The brood of Fenrir;

      Of them all

      One becomes

      The destroyer of the sun

      In the shape of a Troll.

      He⁵⁴ is fed with the lives

      Of death-fated men;

      He reddens the seat of the gods

      With red blood;

      The sunshine becomes black

      After the summers,

      And all weather woe-begone.

      Know ye all up to this and onward?

      The herdsman of the Jötun woman,

      The glad Egdir,

      Sat there on a mound

      And struck a harp,

      A bright-red cock,

      Called Fjalar,

      Crowed near him

      In the bird-wood.

      Crowed for the Asar

      Gullinkambi (golden-comb),

      He rouses the warriors

      At Herjafödr’s (host-father);

      But another crows

      Under the ground,

      A dark red cock,⁵⁵

      In the halls of Hel.

      Garm barks violently

      Before the Gnipa cave;

      The fetters will break

      And the wolf will run;

      She (the Völva) knows many tales.

      I see further forward

      To the doom of the powers

      The dark doom of the gods.

      Brothers will fight

      And become each other’s slayers;

      The sons of sisters will

      Break blood ties.

      It goes hard in the world,

      There is much whoredom,

      An age of axes, an age of swords;

      Shields are cleft;

      An age of winds, an age of wolves,

      Ere the world sinks;

      No man will spare

      Another man.

      The sons of Mimir are moving

      But the end draws near,

      By the sound of the ancient

      Gjallarhorn.

      Heimdall blows loud,

      The horn is aloft;

      Odin talks with

      The head of Mimir.

      Shakes the standing

      Ash Yggdrasil;

      The old tree groans,

      And the Jötun (Loki) breaks loose;

      All are terrified⁵⁶

      In the roads of Hel

      Before the kinsman of Surt

      Swallows it.

      How is it with the Asar?

      How is it with the Alfar?

      All Jötunheim rumbles,

      The Asar are at the Thing;

      The Dvergar moan

      Before the stone doors,

      The wise ones of the rock wall⁵⁷

      Know ye all up to this and onward?

      Now Garm barks loud

      Before Gnipa cave;

      The fetters will break,

      And the wolf will run.

      Hrym⁵⁸ drives from the east,

      Holds his shield before him.

      The Jörmungand⁵⁹ writhes

      In Jötun wrath;

      The serpent lashes the waves,

      And the eagle screams;

      The pale beak tears the corpses;

      Naglfar⁶⁰ is loosened.

      A keel (a ship) comes from the east,

      The men of Muspell

      Will come across the sea,

      But Loki is the steerer;⁶¹

      All the monsters

      Go with the wolf,

      The brother of Býleist (Loki)

      Is in the train.

      Surt comes from the south

      With the switch-harm (fire);

      The sun of the gods

      Flashes from his sword;

      Rocks clash,

      The Jötun women stagger;

      Men walk the road of Hel;

      Heaven is rent asunder.

      Then comes the second⁶²

      Sorrow of Hlin,

      When Odin goes

      To fight the wolf;

      And the bright slayer

      Of Beli⁶³ against Surt;

      There will fall

      The love of Frigg (Odin).

      Now Garm barks loud

      Before Gnipa-cave;

      The fetters will break,

      And the wolf will run.

      Then comes the great

      Son of Sigfödr (father of victory)

      Vidar to slay,

      The beast of carrion.⁶⁴

      With his hand he lets

      His sword pierce

      The heart of the Jötun’s son,⁶⁵

      Then his father (Odin) is avenged.⁶⁶

      Then comes the famous

      Son of Hlodyn (Thor);

      Odin’s son

      Goes to fight the serpent;

      Midgard’s defender (Thor)

      Slays him in

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