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THE
PROSE OR YOUNGER
EDDA
COMiMUlNLY ASCRIBED
TO
SNORRI STURLUSON
TRANSLATED FROM THE OLD NORSE
BY
B. A.
OXON.
STOCKHOLM.
NORSTEDT AND SONS
1842.
TO T n O M AS
CARLYL
E.
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short
work now
it
in
the
original
the
iirst
part
of a eollection
"Snorra-Edda asamt
Edda
together
with the
Skalda
It
and
the
Treatises thereto
belonging".
grew
at different times;
and
another
in
the
he
looks
forward
on
this matter,
and
for
length;
but
the
in the
main
pressed
by
Prof. Rask.
into
Without entering
the the
any discussion on
which
to
its
present
occasion,
as to the time at
younger
Edda was
written, or as
to
author;
say that he
VI
PREFACE.
fell
has
to
no
liesilatioii
in j)lacing the
"Foreword
the
Edtla", along
with
the "Afterwords to
at the
Gylfi's
end of
is
desirous
tlie
save
the
at
very
con-
threshold,
those
false
conceptions
cerning
filled.
He
ter
lil^erty
of
printing
separately
and under
chapin
which
first
"Gylfi's
it
Mocking", because
clearly
however
interesting,
has
nothing in
follows,
and
is
some early
lo
copyist,
at
who
the
write
down
same time
find
it
all
he knew
for
aJjout Gylfi,
this
and could
no better place
it
first:
is
remarkable
to
by some
omitted.
be the
regartl to
the Translation
it
itself,
his
make
as
faithfid as possiit
and
thougli he
knows
that
might have
it
contains
P R E F A C E.
much
in
that
will
ahiiipt, both
these
respects,
his
aim being
to
make
translation,
not
paraplnase.
In one passage
to soften words,
which
shame,
but which
our age,
less
inwardly
what
is
blusli.
be
found
in
it,
and
that
his
renderings of
of
doubtful passages,
may
which
still
hangs over
all
many
(for
the collection
of Bjorn
')
Haldorson
is
poor
and meagre
failings
all
in the extreme
he
will
be
treated
with
mildness,
since
may
It
was
his
intention
to prefix a facsimile
from
in
*)
a celebrated MS.
of the
Edda, preserved
the
Library
of
the
University of Upsala,
May
is
said to be at
VUl
PREFACE.
to the
and up
this
very
last
moment he hoped
that
to
be
looked
sala,
Up-
have
rendered
this
intention
and hope
alike fruitless.
Lastly there
few^
is
words must be
most readers,
it
is
work
nay
useless,
without a good
Index of Proper
this objection the
Names and
Translator
is
their
meanings fto^
weight,
considerable
progress
in such
an
Index,
when
circumstances
it,
which
if
he
his
gave
itj^up'^for
however
Skalda
at
some future
and
he
tions of this
volume,
works,
by an Index which
as
will
there are
to
comparati-
vely
tlie
speaking
few
Names
be met with in
Als producte der vernunft (aber nicht der denkenden) enthalten die religionen der volker, so audi die mythologien, sie mogen noch so einfach, liippisch erscheinen, wie achte kunstwerke, ja
allerdin2:s
sjedanken,
allsfemeine
bestiramunq:en
das wahre,
denn der
instinct
der
verniinftig-
De sailsamma
,
bilder,
som mota
oss
denna
vSra forfaders lara skola redan i sig sjelf va vara be vis nog, att vi bar intrada i en for oss och all nyare odling frammande, langesedan forsvunnen den menskliga tankans verld, hvars bieroglyfer aro lika undransvarda, soni ofta svara alt tyda.
Geijer.
Svea Rikes
Hiifder. p. 311.
...
for
the the
read
the
lastline
line
ont
seareh the
out
search
the
11
5
15
you
mimirs
takes he upper
Plutushell
...
thee
mimir's
takes he /Ae upper
^. 80
81
9
9
105
PJdtushell.
who
are not
to
and
'5,
answer respectively
in
English.
Mocking
1.
Bragi's Telling
86.
Foreword
Afterword
Afterword
to the
EdJa
Mocking
96. 112.
to Gylfi's
to the
Edda
113.
GEFIUN'S PLOUGHING.
King
Svi'l'iod,
Gylfi
now
hight
of
as
him
the
in
said
that he
gave a wayfaring
woman,
a
meed of
his
made him.
ploughland
ear
up
one
took
in
day and a
the
But that
is
woman
was
she
of
named Gefiun,
four
and
set
them
before
plough.
it
went
so
hard and
deep that
tore
up
the
land,
to sea
and west-
and
stood
still
in
certain
it
sound.
There
called
name and
And
the
room whence
water,
in
up
became afterward
which
5
now
called
in
The
the
saith
Water (lavgrinn)
lake
lie
SviJ)i6d
just
as
the
headlands
Saelund.
So
reft
GYLFFS MOCKING.
King
Gylfi Avas a
man
he wondered
much
went
was so cunning
thought
himself Avhcther
might be from
their
own
they
mighty Gods
journey
to
whom
worshipped.
He began
his
Asgard and
like-
went
ness,
stealthily,
than
his
that they
him
shows.
Now when
a
to
so
it's
high that
he
see over
gilded
f>iod6lf
shields
as
it
were with
that
So
of
Hvina
Valhall
was thatcht
with shields.
"Warriors care-vext
(smitten with stones were they)
Gylfi saw a
man
in
the hall-door
who played
once,
with
that
small-swords,
aloft at
for his
name, he called
-
Gylfi
Mocking.
GYLFIS MOCKING.
and
(said
to
himself Ganglcri,
a far
he was)
come from
lodging;
that
seek a
niglits'
hall.
He answers
was
King, "But
may
lead
and
then shallt thou thyself ask him his name:" and the
man
after,
hall,
but he went
to at his heels.
folk,
There
saAv
he
some a-playing,
a-fighting:
some
some with
weapons
many
things
quoth he
bard
'tis
"Every gate
ere one goes on
for
to tell
where
i'
th*
He saw
three highseats
sat,
one
in each,
He
that led
answers, that he
who
sat
the nethermost
highseat
was
but next
that
sat
one
J>ri^'i.
hight
Jafiihar,
and uppermost he
asks the
hight
his
Then Har
is,
errand
him
first
as to all
He
says he will
spy
out
siiys,
there
be
within.
Har
that
he
be wiser.
CYLFI'S IhOCKING.
"and stand thou
forth
J^%VH
J^i^ /it/cr^.
/
AtAA
J
sit".
^
5
7lt**^C
Gangleri began
all
his
speech thus
says.
Who
is first
/J,* AIiIm^^
{i,
or ehlcst of
in
Gods?
in
liar
He
hight Allfadir
i\y0)\^
%
j5
l/etloi
names,llerian,
is
Allfiidir,
is
the second
is
Herran or
'
the third
Nikuz
or rinikuSr,
JFioInir,
Biflifi
the sixth
or Biflindi,
ninfh
Then
is
asks
Gan?
Where
is
that
God?
or what
to
his
might
or
says.
He
and
lives
from
all
all
ages,
realm,
said
lift
sways
Then
Jafnhar.
and
.What
all
is
belongs
to
them.
Then
said friSi:
that shall
rot to
and
mould or burn
ashes
and
all
men
that
with himself in
place called
Vingolfj
but wicked
that
is
men
fare to
and thence
into Niflhel
said
beneath in the
kept he
ninth world.
ere
Then
Gangleri;
Where
i^V
.**''
^\
.
4
4.
GVLFl'S MOCKING,
Gangleri said;
it
'u^
how
"\veis:
What was
Avas
the beginning? or
J)"|,;|^
**Jl*''
.
did
arise?
is
or what
in
before?
Har ans-
%S{
V
As
it
said
Vdluspa.
Earth was not found
nor Heaven above
a
ai^V^wvi 0\
,
'
<*:
when
'
was there,
the
midst
lieth
and thence
Fimbul,
SliSr
is
and
Hri!>, Sylgr
Leiptr, Gioll
nearest Helgate.
in
Then spake
But
first
hight Muspell,
is
so
burns
and
blazes,
He
is
sits
of
the
world
all
will
he
fare
forth
and
all
herry
and
overcome
with
fire;
the
it
Gods,
said
in
and burn
Voluspa.
the world
so
is
Men
tread the
way
to Hel;
but Heaven
is cleft".
^/C^
^^/
^^----^
e^OU^
^i'.a^
'kJU^^-c,
O^c^^^
1.
in
pi
^^
Sn^^^^^cOi^
n^^^^jL^^
Ct^u^t.^.^4^
P^.ryn^t^^ir<
(>^i>V^.^
in
Voluspa the
short.
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
5.
Gangleri said
races
What was
ere
the
and the
folk of
from
flow-
venom which
when
the ice
it
stood
and ran
arose
not, then
gathered over
that
damp which
rime; and
from
the
venom and
froze to
the
was
filled
ice
everywhere
south
side
were
fogs
and gusts;
of Ginniinga-gap
the sparks
and gledes
f'riSi:
Then spake
and
all
things grim,
was
was
and
it
when
the
blast
ped
and
quickened
by the
was sha-
might of him
who sends
said
Voluspa the
short.
O
"From
GYLFIS MOCKING.
Vidiilfi
But poisonseetliers
from Svart-havfcla,
Giants
all
From Viimcifi
wisards all,
But
as to this
From Elivagar
sprang
venom
till
drops,
a
Thou
wise Giant?
and waxed
Come
all
together,
Then
said
Gangleri;
How waxed
gether from
him, or
that
more
thou
men came?
now may we
and
so
it
God whom
:
By no means
he
be
God
was
bad
all
is
kind,
call
we HrimJ>ursar:
he
fell
and
said,
when he
his
his
slept
into a sweat a
then
waxed under
left
hand
man and
wo-
feet
that
race,
Hrimjurs him
Gangleri;
we Ymir.
Then
said
dropped
was
it,
that
tlie
cow hight
Audhumla
was
made
teats
of
but
fed
out of her
and she
Ymir; then
said Gangleri.
On what
did the
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
which were
the stones,
salt,
aud the
at
first
there came
day
was
all
the
man was
there
He
is
named
j
Buri, he
fair
of face,
great and
(to
mighty
he gat a son
Besla,
hight Borr.
He took
the
first
1
Ve:
and
trow
Odin and
his
brethren must
must be
to
so called,
so
hight the
man whom
and
we know
be
greatest
and
*
lordliest;
well
may
i
Then
said
Gangleri.
Bcir's
sons slew
Ymir
the Giant;
there ran so
much
blood out of
all
wounds,
that
with that
they
drowned
got
the
who
away with
call
Bergelmir, he went
on
board
his
boat, and
Hrimfursar,
"Winters
as
is
here said.
that
first
I
past counting
remember,
how
8
8.
CYLFl'S MOCKING.
then
by
Bor's sons,
Har
says; Thereof
not
little
to
say.
They took
into the
midst of Giiiniinga:
made
of
him the
flesh
earth
and waters,
his
of his
earth was
made; but of
broken.
Then
said
Jafnhar.
Of
that
blood which
they made
fast
free,
the earth
and
laid
it
round about
to
it.
it
in
a ring without;
and
must seem
most
men beyond
said
I'ri'Si
:
their strength to
come over
skull
Then
up over
the
with four
sides,
they
dwarves:
NorJ>ri,
Su|>ri.
Mus-
pelheim, and
set
(them)
in
(and) they
in
gave resting-places to
all (ires
and
set
some
Heaven
some fared
a place
free
them
in
and
So
it
is
said
old
songs,
from
is
that
time
Avere
days
and
said in Voluspa.
CYLF IS MOCKING.
"Sun
tliat
wist not
liall
Moon
liad".
So was
said
it
Then
hear,
now
wondrous
smithying
is
that,
and deftly
done.
How
It
it,
Har:
about
is
lieth
and on
that sea-strand
round
and
for this
burg
the
(it)
burg Midgard
aloft,
here said.
"Of Ymirs
flesh
"But of
his
brows
made
Midgard
But of
mens
sons;
his brain
but of his
slcull
heaven,"
9.
Then
said
Ganglerij
about,
then brought
much
and days
that dwell
the
world?
Bor's sons
10
CYLFl's MOCKING.
stocks,
gave soul
the
and
third
life,
the
second
wit
and
will
to
move,
and eyesight;
(they)
man
hight Ask,
but the
man
begotten,
whom
midst
Midgard.
a
Then next
in
made them
is
burg
the
called
Asgard: [that
call
we TroyJ
Gods
tidings
is
and and
their
feats
many
both on
earth and
in
the sky.
There
HliJ'skialf,
sat lliere
his highseat,
then
things that
Fiorqvin's dau"hler,
the
and
that
from
offspring
kindred
in
it;
come
Asgard
we
call
the
Asa
stock,
who dwelt
lie
about
and
for
all
stock
are
known
to
be Gods.
is
And
this
may he
Gods
father of all
the
that
him and
wife,
Earth was
first
daughter and
was
Asa-f'orr:
him followed
all
strengtl)
and
sturdiness,
thereby quelleth he
things quick.
CYLF IS MOCKING.
10.
11
Norvi or Nard
a
hifjht
fjiant
who abode
Nott
,
in
Jotunheim, he had
daughter
hiijht
she
like
man
last
and
fair
was he
after
his
father.
Then took
Allfadur
Nott
and
and
set
them up
in hea-
they
on the
horse that
called
morn he
bit.
bedews
The
the sky
and earth
11.
glistens
said
from
his
mane.
Then
Gangleri;
How
steereth
says.
he the
Moon? Har
The man
who
is
named
fair
JNIundilfciri
were so
(the son)
and
free
that he called
his
one of them
and
gave
the
at
man
hight Glenr:
his
pride,
and took
kinSol
and
set
drew
to
which
ffive
12
of
those sparks
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
that
flew
out
from
Muspelheim,
those
under
that
is
Mani
steers
and wane:
thus,
Bil
he
took
two children
named
Mani
as
may be
Then
as
if
said
and
near
she
were afraid,
her
that
her,
and no way
fore him.
to
be-
Then
said
Who
It
is
is
he that ma-
that hight
Hati
bounds before
so
her,
it
and he
wills to
said
catch
the
moon, and
must
be.
Then
Gangleri;
What
is
Har
GVLFIS MOCKING.
wood hight JarnviSr,
ches
hight
in that
13
those wit-
wood abide
JarnviSiur,
the old
all
many
giant sons,
and
in
Avolf's
and
thence sprung
these
wolves;
and
so
is
said, of
is
cal-
led
Managarm; he
will
of all those
men
stain
that die;
and he
swallow the
all the sky;
moon, and
thence
then
in
loses
wild,
said
Voluspa.
the old (hag)
"Eastward
sits
He
of
is
filled
with lifeblood
in the iron-wood
men a-dying.
reddens the Gods seats
He
them
swart
of
is
the sun-shine
after,
summers
weather
all fickle:
13.
Then
said
Gangleri
What
is
the path
from
earth
at
it
to
heaven?
now
asked, hath
a bridge
how
the
Gods made
it
from eaith
Bif-raust; that
it
may
be thou callest
rain-
of
three
14
wrouijlit
Avilh
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
craft
and
cunniiifj
it
the children
Muspell fare
to
ride
and
swim
on.
rivers,
come they
Then
Methinks the
Gods could
if
it
bridge in earnest,
shall
be able to break,
will.
they
what they
Then
said
worthy of blame
is
Bifranst,
but no thing
in
itself
there in
this
world that
may
on
trust
when
come
to
the fight.
14. ter
Then
said
Ganglcri,-
What
he
rulers, and
Avcirds of
that
was
ij^avullr
to
the
a
midst court
work was
in,
make
which
theii-
seats
stand
highseat that
Allfadir
hath
that
it
house
is
is
the
best
made on
earth and
it
the biggest,
in
all
within and
without as
the place
men
call
was very
fairj
house
call
men
Vingolf.
CVLFI'S MOCKING.
did
\vas
to
15
lay
down
fori>e,
sfitliy,
and for
it
they
Avronghl
hammer
tongs and
and by help of
tree,
jold
that all
is
their
housestufF
had thev of
it
and
that age
s])oilt
was
af-
terward
by
the
coming
thither of the
wosat
men
the
that
came out
of Jcitunheim.
seats,
Then next
a
Gods upon
their
and held
doom and
bethought them
in
how
the
the
mag-
gots
in
the
Dwarves had
in
been shaped
Ymir's
flesh,
but
at
wise
with
the
J-
wit of
allbeit
the like-
ness of
men
they abide
said
in
Vciluspa.
"Then went
Gods
the powers
i'
all
,
to their stools
the rack
made
the master
right-holy,
of Dwarves all,
who should
the kindred
men,
l)lood
Durinn
said."
16
"Nyi, and NiJ>i,
GYLFIb MOCKING,
Oii, Onarr,
Oinn, Mo^vitiiir,
Vigr, and Gandalf,
Vindalf, J>orinn,
Fili, Kill,
and Vestri,
Aipiofr, Dvalinn,
Dainn,
Fun^inn, Vali,
pior, pioinn,
J)eckr, Litri, Vitr.
Bifurr, Bafurr,
Bavmbavir, Nori.
Nyr,
Nj'iaJ)!-
Reckr, Ra^svi^r."
in stones,
in
mould
"Draiipnir,
Dolgjpvari,
Dilfr,
Havir, Hugstari,
Hle^iolfr, Gloinn,
Auvari,
Hepti, Fili,
Doii, Ori
Harr, Siarr."
on Joruvalla, and from them are the Lovarr sprung,these are their
names
Eikinskialldi,
"Skirfir, Virfir,
Skafi^r, Ai,
Alfr, Ingi,
Fair, Frosti,
Fif>r, Ginnarr,"
15.
seat
Then
said
Ganglerij
of
tlie
What
is
the head-
or
is
holieststead
at
Gods?
liar
answers:
the
That
Yi'frdrasil's
ash,
there must
Gods
hold
GYLF IS MOCKING.
hold their
17
said Gangleri;
?
doom every
there
to
is
day.
Then
What
is
Then
says
Jafnharj
it's
The Ash
trees
best
and biggest,
stand
it
up and
Avith
the Asa;
the
second
with
the
Hrim|>ursar,
the
there
third
is
where
aforetime
was Ginniinga-gap;
standeth
Hvergchnir,
But unthere
are
Hrimf ursar
Avit
Mimir's
spring where
knowledge and
he
is
full
of Avisdom,
spring
fadir
it
from the
horn
thither
came
AU-
not before
in
So
it
is
said
Voluspa
I
"Well know
in the
Odinn
hid,
mere
Mimirspring;
The
and under
root
is
the
spring
that
is
right
Mocking.
18
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
ride the Asa
up
Avhich
hight
thus;
also Asbridge:
the horses of
the
Asa
hight
Sleipnir
is
best,
is
him hath
GlaSr, the
feet,
the second
the
ninth
Falhofnir,
tlie
tenth
Gulltoppr,
Lettfeti
the
those
Every day;
that he fares to
doom
at Yggdiasil's ash;
For Asa-bridge
burns
all aflre,
Then
said Gangleri;
Burns
seest
fire
over Bifraust?
in
Har answers:
burning
fire;
That thou
the
red
the
bow
is
Riinegiants
and
the
Hillogres
to
(Hriml>ursar oc Bergrisar)
might go up
free to all
heaven
were
fare
in
path
on Bifraust
who would
(thither).
Many
all
fair
there
a godlike
ward
set:
there
spring,
one
out
by the
and
of that hall
Vcrfandi
maids
yet
shape the
lives
of men,
them
we Nornir;
CVLFI'S MOrKtNC.
are
that
19
to
there beside
is
Nornir
shape his
who come
life,
every
man
born
to
are
known
and
to
be godlike;
third
Elfrace,
is
here said
"Born
far asunder
Then
said
Gangleri;
some have
gifts
good
life
and a rich,
life,
but some
or praise,
some long
othersome short.
but those
men who
are weighed
down with
16.
Then
said Gangleri
What more
Har
Avonders
says;
Much
boughs
to
be said thereof;
is
an eagle
wise in
sits
in the
eyne
bight
sits
the
hawk
Ratatoskr
runs
the
Ash,
NiShavgg;
-^
buds,
^^
20
GYLFl's mOCKING.
in
may
tell,
here said,
hai-t bites
The
wit
above
it
beareth hardships
nioi-e
i-ots,
it
than
men
Ni&havgg
scores
beneath."
and
so again
it
is
said.
"More worms
than every
are lying
Again
it
is
said,
who
abide
by
spring,
Avcll,
its
and
take
the
clay
that
lieth
round the
for that
boughs
is
wa-
ter
things which
come
into the
spring
(skiall)
become
whicli
is
as
lieth
hight shale,
shell.
As
here said.
I
An
ash ken
besprent
hight Yggdrasil's,
it
otir
Urpr's wellspring.
that
The dew
falls
it
men
honey-fall and on
CYLFl's MOCKING.
21
come
Then
tell
thou to
there
of heaven,
at
than (that)
Urfr's spring?
are
there,
that
Elfheim,
the
There
is
which
is
called Breiis
and none
Glitnir,
fairer
it's
is
there.
There
also that
hight
are
and
walls
it's
and
pillars
and posts
of
red
gold but
roof of silver.
There
is
again
the
stead
hight Himinbiorg,
at
that stands
on
heaven^s
edge
where
a
Bifraust
toucheth
heaven.
There
is
beside
great
stead
hight Valaskialf,
Gods
made
in
it
and thatched
hall
is
with sheer
silver,
and there
that
and when
Allfadir sitteth in
On
is
fairest
all
%^f
the
sun
Gimle
hight,
shall
c?it^Jij,^>^Uvt
r;fV\rJ^
Yk^
22
righteous
ages.
GYLFl's MOCKING.
men
is
it
shall live
in that stead
through
all
So
said in Voluspa.
wis.
"A
hall stands
There
shall
doughty
men
abide,
all
and through
bliss enjoy."
days
Gimle
aloft;
Then
Avhen
says:
said
Gangleri
"What guards
this stead
Surtr's
fire
is
burns
Har
So
it
said
that there
this
a second
heaven
southward up above
again above
in
that heaven
we
think
stead
is,
now,
18.
Then
is
said
Ganglerij
Whence comes
may he
the
wind? He
so strong that
c.*^(ju
fans
fire,
be seen, therefore
answers
Har.
That can
well
tell
thee;
at
the
sits
he has an eagle's
to
flight,
is
it
featliers,
then
arise
the
winds under
his
wings:
here
so said.
from his pinions
Hraesvelgr higUt
he who
sits
at heaven's
end
mankind
over.
GYLFl's MOCKING.
19.
23
skills
it
Then
said
Ganglerij
hot,
Why
so
much
Har
that
summer should be
answers:
all
man
ask,
for this
know
of,
but
if
been so slowwitted
I
as not to
have heard
then
unwisely,
a
dolt
in
than that
thou
shouldst
to
go on longer
know.
SvasuSr
father of
Summer, and
warmth
that
he
is
of
is
easy
life
is
so that
from
his
which
winter
is
mild
called sweet 5
but
or
the father of
Vindsvalr, he
Vasafar's
son
and
all
that kindred
were grim
20.
Then
are
said
Gangleri;
to believe
Who
Asa.
that
men
bound
are
Har.
Twelve
the
godlike
Then
is
spake
their
might
eldest
less.
Then spake
J>riJ>ij
Odinn
is
first
and
the other
like
all
as children
But Frigg
is
his wife,
tells
as
it
is
hight Loki.
24
"Mad
and
art thou
G\LF IS MOCKING.
Loki
Weiides
all
reft
of wit
metliinks Frigg
knoweth
them never."
why
Loki?
Odinn hight
of
all
Allfadir because he
also bight Valfadir,
all
is
tbe fathei'
Gods,
lie
because his
in fight,
sons
by choice are
those Avho
fall
for
He
also
hight
beside he
been
named
in
many ways
while
he was
coming
"I
to king Geirrtifar.
called Grirar,
Sijrhavttr,
am
Si^skeggr,
and Gangni^r,
Herian, Hialaiheri,
SigfavoT, Hniku^r,
Allfav^r, Atri^r, (Farmatyr),
feckr,
f>ri|>i,
Oski,
Omi,
iutv, U^r,
Helhlindi, Har;,
Jafnhar, Biflindi,
Gavndler, Harhar^r,
Svi^urr, Svi^rir,
Jalkr, Kialarr,
Sa^r, Svipall,
Sann-getall,
Hertcltr, Hnikarr,
YiPurr,
Bileygr, Baleygr,
Vakr, Skilvingr,
Bavlverkr, Fiulnir,
Vafu^r, Hroptatyr,
Then
ye
given
said Gangleri;
him, and by
my
troth
to
him
for each
skill
is
of
is
names.
needed rightly
but yet
it
shor-
CYLFl's MOCKING.
test
25
to
tell
thee, that
been
many
so all peoples
was needful
to turn
his
name
into their
him and
ask boons
him
for themselves
befell
names
him
in
his
said
in
man
fjreat
if
thou
shallt
not
be able to
tell
of those
tidinj^s.
21.
Then
said Gangleri;
What
are the
names
what
is
What
is
their business, or
]^6rr
the
he
is
he hath
that
realm
iii
hight
f>rii5vangr,
Cilskirnir,
flooi's,
that
men have
made.
So
is
said in Grimnismal.
floors
"Five hundred
and forty mo
are in bowed Bilskirnir I trow;
of those houses
that roofed I
know
I wis."
my
f>6r
son's
is
most
has
two goats
hight
thus
Tanngniostr
in,
but
26
the
goats
GVLFl'S MOCKING.
draw the
car,
wherefore
he
is
called
OkuI>6rr.
He
them
one
of
the
hammer
is
raised
and that
of
their
is
no wonder,
or
is it
it
many
second
a skull
costly
belts,
fathers
friends:
the
best
of strength
his
godstrength
has, in
which
is
great worth,
he
is
may
tell
thee so
many
tidings of
all
is
him
said that I
know.
22.
Then
Asa.
said Gangleri;
of
is
more
Har
says:
it
Odinn
is
Balldr and of
him
good
is
to say,
fair
he
the
best and
him
all
it
praise,
glistens
it
he
so
of face and
is
so bright that
is
brow,
of
all
grass
his
tjie
the
and
thereafter
and body.
He
H^lff'/U-
is
wisest
of
Asa and
is
fairest
liini
spoken and
in
that none
may
higlit
GYLFl's MOCKING.
BreiSablik,
that
is
27
that stead
said.
is
in
heaven
in
is
may
naught be that
"Brei^ablik hight
unclean, as
here
In that land
where
least loathliness."
23.
The
third As
is
the
he dwelleth in heaven
in
and
fire;
on him
is
and
give
fishing:
he
so rich
broad lands
for
and goods
who
in
call
on
him
them.
Vanaheim,
Gods,
to the
and
took
instead
it
for
an
Asahostage
set
him hight
Ha>nir5 and he
at
was that
NjorSr
one
again.
has
of
that
woman
giant,
to
wife
Ska'Si
hight
will
it
SkaSi
daughter
I>iazi
the
is
on some
fells
I>rymheimrj
it
at
in
this
wise,
in
now when
fells,
then
fells.
28
CYLFl's MOCKING.
this,
never
he waTieth me,
as
my Led
on the strand
Then
in
fared
SkaSi up to the
and abode
and bears
bow and
So
it
is
said.
NiorSr
in
Noatun
begat
afterward two
they were
fair of face
is
most
famous
shine
of the
also
is
Asa,
and
it
and
on him
and he
is
good
and peace j
But Freyia
also
As
is
here said
riileth
every day
Her
hall
is
Sessry'mnir
is
great and
fairj
but when
she
fares
CYLFl's MOCKING,
29
and
sits
in
caij
prayers
of
men,
that title
that rich
loveditties
women
and on her
to call.
25.
Then
said Ganglerij
these
wonderful that
are able to scan
who
Gods,
to ask
your boons
is
on
him
it
is
to
is
call.
Thei^e
a saw that he
tyrstrong Avho
before
other
that
is
it
men and
is
never
is
yields,-
he
is
also so
is
wise
said,
he
his
tyrlearned
daring,
who
wise.
This
one mark of
when
Fenris-wolf
to lay
they
laid
in
but
when
the
Asa
him
now
hight wolf's
and
Tyr
is
onehanded
Bragi higlit
one
(As,)
he
is
famous
for
wisdom and
best in tongue-wit
30
GYLFl's MOCKING,
it
is
m^
that songcraft
is
named
Bragr.
And from
his
name
wit
we
in
call
who have
His wife
-%
hight
old,
and then
it
become they
all
all
so
must
be
said Gangleri.
Much
under
the
care
Then
said
may be
able to
tell
first
27.
Heimdallr
is
hight
one,
he
is
called the
white As, he
him
sisters;
He
and Gullintanni
hight
his
teeth
were of gold,
in
horse
Gulltoppr;
he
abideth
is
the place
warder of the
sleep
than a bird, he seeth day and night alike an hundred miles from him,
he heareth be
it
grass that
all
c% ffiiitH/Vtf'
things
Gicill,
he hath the
horn hight
CYLFl'S MOCKING.
and
it's
31
blast
is
heard in
all
worlds; the
is it
head
is
Thus
here said
And again he
am
I
of maidens nine
am
of sisters nine".
28.
he
is
blind;
very
strong
is
be named, because
his
handy-
long be
had
in
and men.
29.
next in strength to
trust
]^6rr,
in all straits.
Rindar; he
31.
he
is
so
good
bowman,
and
so
fast
on
he
his
is
may
strive
with him;
him
it
good
32.
single combat.
Forseti
Nanna
and
all
that
come
to
32
lawsuits
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
go
all
away
set
at
is
it
the
here
with gold
'tis
stayed,
and
same;
and
33.
He
is
besides
whom
some
call
named Loki
his
Giant,
are
mother
Laufcy or Nal,
Loki
is
his
brethren
Byleistr
ill
and Helblindi:
in
free
and
;
fair
of face^
fickle of
mood
he
hath
above
all
men
and
cheateth in
all
and
oft
set
them
free
by cun-
ning redes.
or Narvi.
34.
Angrbofa
hight
in
Jurmungandr,
Hel.
that
IMiSgardsworm
the third
this
is
kindred
much moan
and
GVr. Fl'S
M
to
Of;
KING.
5
33
that
for,
arise
them
ill
and thought
to
still
all
of them
the
much
was
be looked
by
worse by the
father's,
to
to
him:
and
0.
.,
when
into
they
the
came
sea
to
him then
lieth
cast
he the wornx
all
deep
tiiat
about he
lands;
in
and
the
worm
waxed round
so,
all
that
lieth
the midst
tail
of the sea
the earth
those
abodes
among
the
men
that are
sent to
:
her,
she
and her
grates
huge
EliuS-
can
scarce
beetling cliff
is
the
threshold
bale
her
entry,
of
care
hall
5
her bed,
she
is
burning
blue
the
hanging
her
flesh,
is
half
therefore
she easy to
The wolf
alone
the
Do
to
jro
to
him and
jjive
him
Mockins'.
34
each day, and
to scathe
CYLFI'S MOCKING.
all
spells said
he must be raised up
this
rede, they
made
{>ing;
a fetter
and
bare
to
the
wolf,
and
but
it
bade
him
to
tiy
his
strength
on
the
fetterj
seemed
them do
with
,
him
as
they
(it)
listed
the
first
spurned
loosed
fetter
against
was he
from Laefing.
such great
the
sinilhswork
might
fetter
not
hold
him;
Now
waxed
wolf
at
thought
this
was
very
strong,
but
the
same
time
that
his
it
strength
had
into
since he
that
came
his
mind
so
he
let
must
run
lay
risks
if
he would be famous,
he
them
told
the
fetter
on
him;
himself,
on
the
earth,
that
the
broken
bits
flew
it
far;
thus
freed
he
himself
from
to
Dromi,
and
has been
since held as a
saw
or
sing
when any
thing
is
pas-
the
should
All-
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
fadir a vouth
\\liO is
35
named
ger,
ves,
downwards
and
let
it
into
Swartelfheiin to certain
dwarbight
of
there
be
wrought the
six
fetter
Gleipnir;
cat,
was
made of
things,
footfall
beard of
fish,
woman,
and
breath of
spittle of bird;
sure
proof
that
lies
thou
that
woman
beard;
^U^M
/''t-M-
^
rl
'
nor
wis
any
all
roots
I
under stones,
have told thee
that
and by
is
my
troth
that
just as true,
though
^MA-vvV^-V*'''?
<^1
there
be
said
some things
thou
I
"^C.t
Q> ^ iiX
Then
sight,
Gangleri; This
I
may
see
to
be true at
*^
v^
for
proof;
but
how
was
I
smithied?
Har answers;
smooth and
That can
as
was
soft
a silkenstring,
and
so trusty
and
now
Asa
hear.
When
the fetter
was brought
senger
the
to
the
is
called
them
break
it
showed
it,
him
the
it
silkenband
and quoth
look
to
might
thinness;
30
then
its
CtLFl's MOCKING.
they
handed
wilh
it
tryecl
it
strength
their
and broke
notj
it."
Then answers
to
it
seems
me
break asunder
with
craft
so
limber a
guile,
band,
little
but an
it
be made
that
and
though
it
look
band conies
that he
not on
my
feet."
Then
said
the Asa
must
a trice a
limp silkenband,
he
who had
"But
if
be able
to
we
will loose
thee straitway."
so that
it
1
The
Avolf
me
would be
ere
to
had
this
to
help; loath
am
lei
band be
on mc,
let
some
a
one of you
this
lay
is
his
hand
my bravery, in my mouth
falsehood.''
for
pledge that
done without
But
there
now
evils;
away
and
his
lays
in
the
wolf's
mouth.
wolf spurned
the
and the
save Tyr,
lie
lost
his
CYI.F IS
tliat
liigiit
llie
MOCKING.
37
cliaiti
Gelgia,
it
was
fixed
to
the fetter,
and and
then
it
drew
through
the
great
rock
in
hight Gitill,
the earth:
fastened
rock
deep
down
J'viti,
and drove
this
and used
stone for
twisted
holdfast.
The
wolf gaped
amain and
to
l)ite
him
about
them; they
hilt
sword, the
in
stuck
that
his nether
his
his upper,
Yon
there lielh
he
till
Then
iiad
said Gangleri
Right
children
of his
own
Lokij
j
and yet
but
and mighty
why
slcAv
when
ill
was to be lookset
ed for from
store
such
they
would not
stain
them with
the blood
of the
wolf, though
he must
become
Then
said
Gangleri;
is
Which
first,
bower hight
is
and
it
is
right lordly.
The second
that
is is
Saga,
she
dwells
at
Saukqvabeck
third
is
and
mickle
leech.
homestead.
The
Eir she
the best
38
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
rouilli
is
The
is
maidens are
Fulla,
all
is
who
die
The
fifth
is.
she
still
maid,
and
fares
loosehaired
redes.
to the
is
wedded
man
is
so
fair
fair
that
which
is
and winsome
a
Hnoss,
OSr
has fared
abroad
far
and
Freyia hath
is,
tli
many names
and
the
leason
of
this
many names
rn
as she
fared
search
of
OSr:
she hight
called
to
Vanadis.
Seventh
Siiifn
it
liketh
her
much
alike,
turn the
love;
mood
of
man
led
to
wooer
so
is
cal-
Siafni."
to
call
Eighth
on,
that
Lofn,
she
mild and
good
from Allfadir
or Frigg to bring
that be
is
together, though
"love" called
is
her name,
and
so also
is
that
which
much
listcth
Vor of
troth,
Var, she
that
the oaths of
plight
gylfTs niocKiNC.
llierelore
39
those
vcn<Teance on those
Vor
is
wise
and
it
searching,
so
is
a saw that a
woman becomes
wise. hall
in
;
Tentli
is
Syn
(it)
she keeps.
door
in
the
and locks
and in
against those
she
is
who
should not go
trials
set
over
those suits, in
which (any)
man
is
forswears himself;
set
is
Avhence
a
is
against
it''
when
is
man
denies
aught.
those
Eleventh
Hlin she
will
set
to
Avatch
over
loiethat
warn
against
any
peril;
is
the saw,
is
he "hleinir"
she
is
who
forewarned. Twelfth
Snotra,
women
(is)
Snotr.
into
many
on
her
she
hath
the
horse
that
runneth
it
through
Hofvarpnir;
fell
once
on a time
in
her car
the
lift;
"What
glideth?"
She answers,
"I
fly
not,
I
K" Hofvarpnir,
though
fare
whom
Hamslcerpir
and
40
GYLFIS MOCKING.
From
Gna's
name
it
is
said
Bil
that
Avhat
lares
high
the
(ill
air) "gnaefi."
Sol and
natui-e
Asynia,
but
of their
it
before.
36.
it
is
to
serve in
Valliall,
boardgear
and
alehornsj
are
they
named
in
Grimnismal.
"Hrist and Mist will
1
should bear
me
the horn,
Hhick and
Herfiotiir,
They bear
choose
those
men
tliat
are fey^
victory.
higlit
and the
youngest Norna,
Skulld,
the battle,
(earth) l^orr's
37.
Gymir
she
was of the
kinj
their
daughter
is
GerSr,
who
is
fairest
of all
women.
There was a
saw-
worlds; but
at,
GYLFl's MOCKING.
parts,
41
woman, and
as she
glistened
from
all
her
the sky
and
water, and
and
in
then
that
his
great
seat,
he had
sat
him
holy
full
away
of grief.
Now when
he came home, he
spake not,
neither slept
he nor drank;
:
and none
Nicirdr be
then
let
him Skirnir,
the
to
\outh go
to
who
waits on
Freyr,
him
to
whom
Avralh
he
would go,
to
and
said
ill
words were
he
so
^vdien
was come
close
Frevr,
he asked
Fi-eyr
and
that
he
had seen
woman,
and
not
for
live
longer
if
"and
now
have
no,
shallt
her
home
I
or
and
will
well
i^epay
thee."
will
Then answers
fare
his
Skirnir,
and
says
that
he
forth
on
his
errand,
sword;
that
42
is
C VLFl'S
MOCK INC.
it
so
good
sword
let
that
this
wields
itself
in
light
fall
short,
sword.
Then
fared
Skirnir
woman
after
for him,
should
she
to
come
to
the
isle
hight
Barey,
and go then
the
Now when
how
"Long
is
one night
seemed
three;
to
me
less
how can
last out
This
less
is
the reason
that
Freyr was
so
weapon-
Beli,
a
it
hart's
is
Then
said
as
Freyr
sword
5
he
whit
very great
was
that to
him when he
Beli,
and by
my
troth
wis
him of
that gift.
Then
answers Har:
Beli
Little
(but)
think
when
fare
38.
Then
said
Ganglori
Thou
fight
those
men,
of
in
trinninji
world,
are
now come
Odin
in
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
Valhall,-
43
what has he
to give
themtoeal? niethinks
there should
Then
a
answers
great
Har:
True
is
it
is
what
but
will
tliou
sayest,
very
yet
little
throng
there,
still
many more
it
shall
be thouglit too
is
when
a
but never
,
there so great
band
of
men
in
Valhall
is
of the
not
them
he
is
at even,
but
this
now
askest,
nietell
be able to
here said,
best of flesh;
Eldhrimnir
Srehrimnir sodden,
Then
as
said
the
champions.
Har answers:
The meat
that
stands
he
hath,
and he needs
j
no meat, wine
is
to
as
here
said.
wartamer
Odinn
for
aye
lives."
Ravens
twain
sit
on
his
shoulders
and
say
44
liight
G Y LF
I'S
KI
IN
C.
mory)
them sendeth
he
at
dawn
over
tlie
they
come hack
in
at breaklast tide;
tidings,-
thereby becomes he
call
Avise
many
for this
as
is
men him
said.
the Raven's
God (Hrafna-GiiS)
here
It grieves
lest
me
for
Huginn
every clay
hut
39.
Then
drink
said
Gangleri;
lills
What have
the
chamas
pions to
their
Avhich
is
them
as bountifully
meat? Or
Harj
swers
Wondrously now
bid
to
thou,
earls
as
if
Allfadir
would
and
to
other
great
men,
and
troth
would
1
give
them water
of these
drink; and by
to
my
wis
manv
come
Valhall
who would
if
terdrink dear,
had
there
at
will;
they
who had
before borne
I
wounds and
tell
toil
unto death;
up alove
and
is
bites
the
buds
oif the
bran-
very famous
hight
Lera^; but
is
so
great that
il.
all
the
champions
full-drunken
out of
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
45
niiglity useful
goat
that
is
l>rave tree
must
Then
said
Har:
wiio
Still
Avortliier
mark
is
stands
over
many
drops,
come down
into Hvergelrair,
Si^S,
and thence
the
rivers so
hight;
,
These are
also
named
Nyt,
f^yn,
GunnJ>rainn,
Navt,
Navnn,
Hronn,
Vina,
Vegsvinn, |>i6'5numa.
40.
tidings,
Then
said
Gangleri
sayestj a
a
must
Valhall
and
great throng
must there
j
Why
then
not
how many
If
or
how
great?
mightest
will
is
thou
say that
is
wonderful
he
who
it
may
not
its
less
roomy
of
as
to
its
shape inside,
than as hear
in
to
ingoing;
this
mightest
thou
Grimnismal.
"Five hundred doors
eij,'lit
lumdred champions
and forty m
are there in Valhall I trow;
when they
fare
forth
to
war
46
41.
G-VLFl'S
MOCKING.
A mighty band
(and) so by
of
Then
there
said
Gangleii;
in
men must
troth
I
be
Yalhall,
is
my
when
the pass-
when
and
fight
and
it
fell
each other;
that
is
their play:
and when
home
to
Valhall
and
sit
down
to
drink;
so
is
it
here said
"All the champions,
Odin's town within,
are the slain they choose,
hewn
at each day;
is
true,
great
is
Odinn
so
is
himself;
many
Odin of Asa,
but of steeds Sleipnir,
Bifraust of bridges;
of trees,
42.
Then
or
said
Gangleri
is
Who
to
Sleipnir?
what
there
skill
say of him.^
Har
thou
b\
must
GYLFTS MOCKING.
seem
time
to
*>
thee
the
worth
to
hear
tlie
tell
of.
Once on
Aviien
town of
set
when
the
Gods had
Mi^gar'S and
made
to
Valhall;
make them
it
burg
true
in
should
be
and
safe
against
the
Rimegiants
in
and
come
that
by
IVIiSgarS.
But
he
asked
for
his
for
liis
hire,
he should have
Freyia
the
own,
Then went
and
the
and
redej
bargain was
made
the
summerday
his
if
aught
of the
off;
burg
was
undone, then
side)
bargain should be
(and bethe
man toward
these
work.
told
him
terms, then
prayed he them
have
give
him
leave,
that
he
might
who
SvaJ'ilfori
hight;
and
by Loki's rede
set
him.
He
the
it
to
work the
first
day of winter
to
to
make
burg,
with
draw
stone for
horse;
but
it
to
the Asa
how
work than
46
witness and
safe
if
GVLFI'S
MOCKING.
it
much
giant
seemed not
to
the
be
among
the
Asa truceless
ward
Trolls.
Now
as the
winter \vent by
it
was
so
high
and strong
that
it
when
there
(the
sat
were
to
sum-
mer
Then
rede,
to
lift
the burggate.
Gods on
their
give Freyia
away
and heaven,
as to
to
the giant^
lie
and
were of one
who
gi-
veth most
ill
redes,
ill
was worthy an
he could not
hit
upon
some
gain;
Loki,
might be
to
and they
But
as
Avcre
just
about
lay hands
on
he
he
sware
that
cost
thinijs about,
it
smith
should
the
lose
his
wages whatever
him.
And
same
smith drove
out after stone with the horse SvafJilfori, there ran out
at
of
a
:
Avood a
mare
the
to
neighed
him
but
Avhcn
steed
he grew
mad and
r.YLFl'S
tlie
MOCKING.
tlie
49
rope,
the
aiul
ran
to
nicire,
to
wood;
his
catch
all night,
and
at
the smith
there
the
night,
and afterAvard
And when
it
will
not
mood.
a
But when
that
the
was
hillogre
for
had come
oaths,
thither,
they
J^orr
s])ared
;
not
their
but
called
on
and
lift-
quick
ed
the
as
(and) next
of
so
all
hammer
Miollnir
aloft,
and
paid
j
the
smith's hire,
but
was
skull
easily
(done) by the
small
bits,
blow
that
broke
his
into
Niflhel.
J'ilfiiri,
run such
after
race with
foal,
it
Sva-
sometime
he bare a
is
was
feet,
and that
is
it
said
in
Voluspa.
oaths,
all
the rack,
Gods right-holy, and of that took rede, who had the lift all
with guile blended,
or to the giant kin
OS'r's
seldom
sits
he
still
may given?
Mocking.
like talktof.'
Gylfi's
50
43.
CVLri'S MOCKING.
Then
said
Gangleri,-
What
is
is
(there) to
(*
best of ships
there
not
ship
even
as
good
as she or
is
even
as
great?
best of ships,
and
Naglfar
is
the
greatest
in
Muspell.
Some Dwarves
sons
of Ivaldi
so
may
sail
is
find
set
room on board
she has a
is
her,
and
as
soon as the
she
shall
fair
wind
-whither
go;
no need
made
of so
many
much
craft,
that he (Freyr)
may
her together
44.
like a cloth
in his bag.
Then
but
said Gangleri;
A good
spells
ship
is
SkiS-
bla'Snir,
many cunning
had
to her,
Has
f^orr ever
him
it
match
for
him
either
for
said
it
cunning spells?
can
tell
Then
and yet
Har:
hath
it
Few men
wis
of
this,
many
a time fared
hard
with
thing
him;
but though
any
has
not
gotten
mastery,
that
there
is
no need
speak
thereof;
there
are
many
proofs of
GVLFl's MOCKING.
this,
51
is
and
for
that all
said
are
bound
to
mightiest.
I
Then
Gangleri,- It looks
me
is
as
if
had
askt
of.
able
to
tell
We
to
have heard
say of
us past belief
sit
one near
who
will
know
how
to
time
who never
I
lyed before.
Then
if
Gangleri;
Here will
to
any
I
answer
call
be
given
to
these
words;
if
but otherwise
tell
it
on you
1
be overcome,
ye cannot
me
what
that
ask.
Then spake
friSi:
Easy
is
it
to see
he will
not
fair
know
to
these
tidings, thouirh
thinketh
thine to
us
speak of them,
but
it
is
The beginning
forth with
is
of this story
that
Okuforr
fared
his hegoats
and
car,
came
lodging,
liegoats
and and
killed
and
they
it
were
(the
sat
flain
and
but when
his
flesh)
was sodden,
to
^ovv and
fellow
them down
the
him
husband and
52
Tlien
laid
GVLFl'S MOCKING.
forr
the
goatskins
his
away from
the fire,
and
cast
told
the
bones
into
the
goatskins.
the son
goat,
and
struck
it
with
bis
knife
and broke
it
for
at
,
the
marrow,
of
his
peep
took
dawn
hammer
Miollnir
and
lifted
it,
and ballowed
up
them
found
bis
was
(ovit),
bait
in
one of
it's
and
said
that the
husband or some of
the
folk
could
not
have
leg
en.
knew
say
needeth
not
to
much,
for
all
may
when
he
saw
that
forr
let
his
made
him
lie his
think
(J^orr)
he
must
fall
down
baft
at
clutched
the
of his
hammer
with
be looked
for,
so
that all
for
an atonement
fear,
all
they had.
But
Avlicn
he
saw
he
their
was
softened,
and
took
their
children
fialfi
and
Ravskva
and
the\
were
G V LF
tlins
I'S
M OC K1
!N
G.
53
tlicy
inacJc
l^oi r"s
bond-servants and
follow hiiu
always since.
45.
He
his
left
after
this
liis
goats there,
and
all
went
to
on
way eastward
and
then
he
into
Jdtnnheim and
the
sea,
fared
he
to
Aviien
came
and
up and
with
him,
Loki
a
fialfi
and Ravsqva;
little
Avay,
all
dark.
J'ialfi
was of
men
fleetest
of foot,
a
good
food.
When
it
was dark,
they spied
them
hall
very great,
as
and as
out a
broad
the
hall;
them
was
great
landquake,
a slip,
and the earth went from and the house shook; then
on
an
his
up and
and
midst
in
called
fellows,
at
and they
the right
thither.
about,
in
found
of the
ofFliouse
hand
f>6rr
the
hall,
and went
sat
him
the
but
held
his
hammer's
a
haft
and thought
to
guard
Kut
when
the
dav n came,
54
out,
OYLFl'S MOCKING,
and saw where
and
a
man
lay close lo
him
in the
wood,
he was not
J'orr
little;
stoutly; then
noise
it
round him
but
strait
in
and
his
Asmight waxed;
woke, and stood
at
the
mean while
it is
the
said
man
forr forbore
once
his
to smite
him
Avith
the
name;
"But
I
but
he
(the
man)
himself Skrymir.
I
know thou
away
my
was
glove?"
Then
his
his
sees |>6rr
a
for
hall,
the
thumb
of the glove.
Skrymir asked,
and
I>6rr
if
J>6rr
would have
his
fellowship,
said
yea to this;
loosed his
wallet,
in
and
began
breakfast,
but I'orr
then
bade they
bound Skrymir
laid
it
all
meat
in
one
bag,
all
and
on his back;
but
afterward
at
even Skrymir
Then
said
Skrvmir
to Jjorr that he
will lay
GYLFl's MOCKING.
55
him
down
to
sleep,
"but
take
make
shall
loose
it
but so must
that
be
said,
though
may seem
past
belief,
loosed, nor
it
stirred
was no
in
this
one
foot
it
and dashed
hammer)
asks
but
Skrymir
his
wakes
and
whether any
on
ready to sleep?
to
sleep.
But
at
midnight
when
fast,
J>6rr
hears
that
it
that
Skrymnir snores
in
and
sleeps
so
thunders
to
the Avood
then stands he
up and goeth
him,
it
clutches the
hammer
middle
the
tight
doAvn on the
of his
hammer
sank
deep
But just
noAv,
fell
"What
is't
an
thee
acorn on
my
But
head?
l>6rr
Or
Avhat's
the
news
Avith
forr?"
Avent
away
hastily,
and
ansAvers that he
was
just then
56
said
it
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
was then midnight,
{>6rr
and
slill
if
time to sleep.
Then
to
made up
strike
his
mind,
he should
come
be able to
him
the third
lies
blow, that he
Skiymir
hears
stands
slept
fastf
but
little
then
then
up and runs
his
to
him,
grasps the
it
hammer
cheek
with
on the
that
to
he
saw
upmost;
mer up
the haft.
But Skrymir
''Be
and stroksitting
said.
there any
as
I
birds
the
tree
over
me?
Methought
fell
woke some
:
on
my
head
to
what, are
you awake
|>6rr!
It
must be time
stand
a
up and
now
long
way
before
1
you
to
the
buig
that
is
called
Utgar^.
have
I
heard
you
a
whispering
little
between yotirselves,
in
that
was
not
man
if
growth,
but
ye
shall see
there greater
I
men
a
Now
make
will
give
you
wholesome
do not
the
too
much
of yourselves,
mannikins;
otherwise
turn
about,
and
that
wis
but an ye will
1
have now
my
path
northward
to
those
fells
which ve may
5?
it
now
on
into
see."
liis
back,
tuins thwart
it
the
wood
fall
and
is
not
in
that the
Asa
prayed to
46.
on him again
fared
health.
forr
and went on
mid day
and
then
saw they
vales
set their
up over
a
(it).
They go
the burg^
fast
>et
and there
was
went
but
locked: J>6rr
it
could not
unlocked,
as
they
strove
to
come
into
the
burg, they
so
the
bars,
and
came
in:
then
saw
the
on
two
and
said.
if
it
and
showed
of a
his
teeth, and
late
to ask
tidings
I
long way,
this
or
be
otherwise
is
than
think, that
stripling
thrall
here
taller than
thou look'st to
me
None
shall
be
here
with us
who
Then
savs
he that went
58
last,
liight
CYLFI'S MOCKING.
Loki.
prove,shall
''I
ken a
there
feat
is
which
no
am
qnite
ready
in,
to
that
his
who
eat
Then
if
feat
(indeed)
tried
thou
and
it
shall
be
forthwith."
he hight
his
Logi
shall
come
forth on
the floor
ta-
and try
ken
filled
Then was
trough
and
borne
sat
in
on
at
with
flesh:
Loki
him
at
the other,
as
but
Logi
all
the flesh,
and
as
if
trough
beside:
to
all
Loki had
5
lost
the game.
that
Loki
"What game
But
J>ialfi
one
whom
Utgar^'s Loki
is
brought forward.
a
Then
good
feat,
and quoth
were
to
swiftness
if
game
but he would
stands
Then
up
Utgar^'s Loki,
ground
to
for
vale.
Then
called
him
Utgar'S's Loki
serving-lad
who
is
nanied Hugi
GVLFI'S
and bade him run
they the
first
MOCKING.
witli
is
59
Tlien
take
that
match
J>ialfl.
heat,
to
and Hugi
so
much ahead
he turns back
UtgarS's Loki:
meet him
at
the
"Thoa ueedest
willt
J^ialfi!
more
soofh
forward an thou
it
is,
there
hath
not methinks
come
hither a
man
cond
turns
l^ialfi.
heat,
is
come
to
Avas
a long spearthrow to
Then
heat
said
UtgarS's Loki:
"Well
I
methinks
has
that
as
thy
been
run;
though
now
shall
be proved
yet
they
come
not
that
to
the goal
to
and
midst
round,
then fialfi
is
come
this
the
all
game
has been
enough
those
tried.
asks forr,
what
feats
may be which
he would be willing to
to the tales
said
men had
he
made
Avill
Then
J'orr that
rather
begin
says
drinking-bout
that
UtgarS's
into
Loki
hall
may
his
well
the
and
calls
cupbearer,
him
to
harm
wont
drink
of.
Then
into
f>6rr's
hand.
Then
60
said
GYLFl'S niOCKlING.
UtgarS's Loki: "Of this liorn
if
it
it
is
thought well-
drunken,
goes olT
off in
in
men drink
it
so
in
httle a
man
J'orr
in
his
drink that
at
goes
it
not ofF
three."
looks
it
the horn,
and
though
(so)
be rather long,
takes
it
but he
much
athirst:
he
and drinks,
shall
and
to
swills very
much,
and thinks
not
need
down
it
how
it
went
tell
whe-
Then
UtgarS's
Lokij
"Tis
well
drunken and
had
it
(yet) not
much,
i)elieved,
that
the second
his
drink."
sets
the horn to
wont;
not go
the
if
and
yet
so
sees
horn will
up
mucli as he
his
horn from
he
mouth,
less
had drank
could
than
time,
but the
horn
said
spilling.
Then
UtgarS's Loki:
"How now
in
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
SO
it
61 diink ofTlhe
to
seems to me,
tlie
if
thou shallt
tliou
now
strive
liorn
third drink,
all:
must
make
this
most of
us
but never
great a
willt
thou be
called
among
if
here
so
man
as
thou
it
of thyself in other
games than
me
will
be (the case)
the
in
this."
Then was
horn
to
his
amain
the
best
he can,
and held
the drink as
into
when he saw
the horn,
it
5
now
at
last
Then
tliat
said
now,
but
thy might
not so mickle as
It
we thought
willt
thou
try
more games?
may be
seen
f'orr
thou
takest
would
seem
wondrous
if
to
me when
was
at
home with
little;
the Asa,
but
what game
thou
now
bid
me?''
Then answers
is
mark
cat;
to
think
I
if
of,
they
lift
up from
the
earth
a
my
but
thing to AsaJ>6rr,
had not
I
first
art
much
less
in
thyself than
a
thought."
Then
next,
up
to
62
GYUFl'S MOCKING.
his
hand, and
would
as
lift
J>6rr
raised
hands
them
as
up
one
and
said
J'orr
did
game
farther.
Then
I
Utgar'S's
is
Loki: "So
fared this
game
is
as
low and
us."
Then
said
"So
little
as ye
call
me,
let
now am
looked
and
not the
a
trifle
man
to
who would
and
not think
it
thee;"
again he said
the carlin
"Let
nurse
me
Elli,
call
me
hither
my
and
her
to
if
he will,
not less
me
an old
shall
carlin:
then
Loki
that
she
take hold on
AsaJ^orr.
The
tale
not long:
to
bestir
loose
on
it
his feet,
tussels,
and
down on one
knee.
Then
leave their
CYLFl's MOCKING.
hold,
63
to bid
and
said
lo
that
any
men
beside
try a night.
hug
in
his
hall,
and
it
was
J'orr
then close
on
Utgar'S's
Loki
showed
and
his
night through
47.
good
fare.
it
dawned
them
stands forr
up and
to
his
fellows;
strait:
(they) clothe
go away
let
and
board
fare,
be
set
for
them
them
away out
of
the burg;
but
asks;
at
parting Ut-
and
"How
he thinks
journey
had
turned out,
answers
he
will
in
not say,
this
that
shamefully
call
meeting;
"but
I I
know
ye
will
ill."
me
man
of
little
worth, and
brook that
I
Then
truth,
if
said UtgarS's
Loki:
"Now
shall
tell
you the
that
since
live
my way,
it:
then
shallt
thou
I
never
more come
never
and by
if
my
troth
wis
thou hadst
come
in,
thou hadst so
much
strength
in
64
I
CYLFI'S MOCKING.
have
fust
to
made
time
against
tlice
I
mocking shows, so
in
that
I
the
Avhen
found thee
the
wood,
came
meet you;
had
bound
it
it
with
iron-thread,
was
tlie
to
be o{)ened.
three
it
Next of
blows,
all
thou gavest
first
me
with
hammer
and the
tliat
it
was
liave
least,
so
if
mickle
it
must
ended
me
to
my bane
had
fallen
on
me
set,
but
when thou
sawest by
it
my
hall
a rock
fast
clov-
hammer:
the
rock
brought be-
tlie
strokes,
So was
also
with
the
games
then
that
ye
played with
my
thanes: the
first
he
was
very
hungry
but he hight
trough not
J>ialfi
and he burned
flesh.
the
soon
than
the
And
when
was
tried
his
race with
it
that
my
thought,
and
strive
was not
be weened by
that.
J>ialfi
that he could
in swiftness
with
it
seemed
by
my
horn
troth
wis
that
was then
wonder which
never
was
out
in
the sea,
that sawest
thou
not,
but
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
but
willt
65
then
now when
drunk
is
now
And
again said
less
worth
when thou
then
with
not as
all
liftedst
and
feared
foot
him
Avas
one
it
ground,
seemed
thee,
who
is
lieth
and
bis length
barely
tail,
enough
and thou
to
take
in
and
raised
him
to
heaven.
And
it
was
wonder about
the
thou
been, and
none
all
shall
and
trip
them
up,
her coming.
And now
fall
sooth to say
we must
part,
and
it
will
that ye
come not
another
so
will
guard
my
burg
time
with
the
same or other
sleights,
that
tale
he grasped his
it
aloft,
forwaid,
the
burg,
5
and
Gjlfi's Mocking.
66
will
GYLFl's MOCKING.
forthwith
break
down
fair,
the
burg,
then sees
but no burg.
Then
came
even
look
way
is
until he
it
to say, that
he
if
had
he
taken
rede
with
himself
to
about,
might
find
that
gardsworm
that
Avhioh afterward
tell
happened.
Now
trow
none can
of povr.
48.
self
is
Then
said
,
Gangleri;
Almickle
in
him-
UtgarS's Loki
sleight
and cunning
great in
spells,
may be
seen that
he
is
himself,
in
who
avenged himnot
for
this?
Har answers:
unknown,
tell
thereof), that
of,
forr
set
and he
home
he
on
his
his
way,
that
had
not (with
fellow.
him)
his
car,
nor
of
hcgoats,
in
nor
any
He went out
Midgnid
the guise of a
at
young
man,
and
is
dusk
to
certain
giant
a
who
Ymir:
f'orr
tarried
there
as
guest
the
dawn Ymir
to
stood
5
up and made
J>6rr
ready
^
to
row out
was soon
sea
to
fish
now
sprang
up and
dressed,
and begged
that
Ymir
CYLFl'S MOCKING.
^^olllcl
67
with
let
him
that
roulittle
out
to
sea
him
had
but
Ymir
him
he)
far
says,
help was to
be
from
as he
was so
willt
little
and but
if
1
a lad,
sit
"and (qnoth
lon^'
thou
out
"ct a
chill,
so
and
so
as
am
wont."
land
for
row
not
to
from
sure
the
and
that
it
was
pray
whether
5
he
would
so
be the
first
to
row back
it
that
Mas nigh
his
that
he had
the
hammer
ring on
try
some-
where
else.
for bait,
then
turned
of
away
thither
where he saw an
he took
ofT the
herd
oxen, which
ox
hight
belonged to Ymir:
Himinbriofr, and
it
the biggesf
cut
j
to
the
seashore
Ymir had
then sho\ed
sat
otF the
skiff,
down
in
the afterroom,
from
his
rowing
Ymir
pulls in
the
bow
forward,
said
Ymir,
wont
will
swift
and diaw up
farther;
flatfish:
row much
row;
Now Ymir
that
they were
come
so
68
far
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
out,
that
it
was perilous
to
sit
Midgarclsworm, but
bit,
J>orr says he
will
row
(yet) a
sad.
and
so
Now when
line
up
his oars,
he got ready a
less
nor weaker,
then
it
and
cast
overboard,
so, sooth
less
to
the ground:
and
a
is
to
say,
that
J>6rr beguiled
not
whit
then
Midgardsworm,
J>6rr
than
UtgarS's
the
Loki
had
in
mocked
his
when he heaved up
worm
over
hand.
the
oxhead,
angle
stuck
in
this,
the
worm's gum:
tugged
against
so
Now when
worm knew
fists
he
I>6rr's
were dashed
the gunwhale,
then
worm),
ship
that he
through
tlien
and
spurned
and
drew
said,
the
that
worm up on
no one
that,
board.
seen
And
it
may
who
be
hath
ugly
siglits
might
the
not sec
when
worm, but
the Avorm
neath
giant
Then
that the
Ymir changed
hue, paled,
he saw the worm, and that the sea ran out and in
the skilT^
and
just
as
forr grasped
his
hammer and
CYLFl'b MOCKING.
brought
it
69
aloft,
then
off
the
giant
fumbled
at
his
fishingknife,
and cut
|>6i'r's
but the
worm
after
at
and forr
cast the
hammer
off
himj and
men
but
him
the ground,
think
it
were true
to tell
thee that
sea.
Midgardsworm
J>6rr
lives yet,
fist
and
and
lies
in
it
the
But
clenched his
set
on
Yniir's
(|>6rr)
ear, so
sees
his
that
and
feet (last)j
and
J6rr
waded
to land.
49.
Then
said
Ganglerij
ti-
wrought
f'orr
on that journey.
said
Har answers
It
must now be
of those tidings
Then
kinds
of
harm
that
and water,
trees,
iron
and
all
sicknesses,
this
beasts,
Avas
But when
the passtime of
up
in their
all
some shoot
70
at
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
sonio
Iicav
him,
at
liim,
stones;
but
whatever
was done
all
him
he took
no scathe,
and
this
But
ill
when Loki
that
liked
to
him
He went
Fensalir
to Frigg,
into a
woman's likeness:
the
did
at
their
meetings.
Balldr and
that
he
Then
said
Frigg: "No
oath have
I
weapon nor
taken of
all all
may
hurt Balldr, an
of them."
Then
asks the
to
woman,
Balldr?"
''Have
ihings
sworn an oath
spare
Then
ans\^crs Frigg,-
called
mistletoe,
methought
too
young
to
crave
an
oath
of."
Then
woman
off,
away,-
and went
in
the meeting'.
the
ring of
men,
for
he
was blind;
then
said
Loki to him
"why
shootest thou
I
He answers;
is,
''Because
am
and another
said
thing because
am
\\cai)onlfSs."
Then
Loki;
"Do
men;
where-
at
him with
shot at
this
wand."
HavSr took
the
mistletoe and
Balldr under
GYLFl's MOCKING.
the guidance of Loki: the shaft
71
right through
that
is-
flew
5
him,
and
he
fell
dead
to
earth
and
the
greatCvSt
mishap
that hath
befallen
When
and
Gods words
and speech,
and
bands too
at
to
each looked
the other,
ail
it,
that
was
so holy a place.
it
when
the
was that
tell
;
wailing
others
came up
of
his
so
that
none might
grief with
words;
and Odin as
all,
was
meet
worst of them
a mickle loss
in
for
he could best
deem what
to
and lessen-
ing
there
was
the falling
to
away of
Balldr.
But when
Gods came
themselves,
Who
might be there
for his
own
all
her
if
he can
find
bid
to
Ilel
ransom
if
Balldr
home
Asgard.*'
But he that
lad,
na-
med
ready
Hermofr
to
the
brisk,
this
Odin's
he
was
undertake
journey;
forth;
and Herm6|>r
got
up on
that
Now
the
to
the seashore;
72
Hriiighorn
of
all
CYLFl's MOCKING.
higlit
Balldr's
ship, she
ships,
make thereon
hight Hyrrockinj
but when
Odin
and
him.
mind
the horse,
felled
th^y
I
could
not
\^\
Then
went
it
Hjrrockin
the
stem of
first
the ship,
and shoved
forwards so the
rollers,
and
all
till
all
the
Gods
when
his wife
Nanna Nep's
grief,
daughter saw
that,
and thrown
the
pile
fire.
Then
stood J'orr
up and hallowed
his
feet
the
with Miullnir,
t])at is
and before
liitr,
ran
certain dwarf,
at
named
him
Avith
his
foot,
sought
burning,-
first
is
to
say of Odin,
that with
him
but
the
a
Valkyriur and
car
his ravens;
Frcyr
drove
in
with
the
GYLFl's MOCKING.
Giillinbursti
73
Heimdall
rode
or
Sli'Sriigtanni,
and
thither
came
much
and
Hillogres.
Odin
laid to
it
on the
the goldring
that
that hight
Draupnir,
every
followed
since
na-
ture,
it
that
led
But of Herm6j>r
it
is
to
be
said,
that he rode
and
rode
on
it
is
thatcht
MoSgu'Sr
is
the
name
or kin,
and
said
that
bridge
five
bands
of
dead
men,
my
bridge
the
hue
of
dead
men;
why
ridest thou
He answers
seen aught of
that
Balldr
on
way?
And
she
said
and north-
ward
till
lieth
Hel's way."
to
he
came
Hel's
then
got
up
fast,
up and cheered
74
GVLFl'S MOCKING.
M'ith
him
his
spurs,
but
Then
hall,
went within
sit
brother Balldr
there
the
the
first seatj
and Hermof r
at
tarried
night over.
of Hel, that
But
morn then
should ride
begged
Hermofr
with
Balldr
home
with
him,
and
said
how
the Asa.
should
is
now
said,
be
tried
so
in
beloved as
"and (quolh
all
things
for
him;
kept
the
Asa;
but
be
Hel
if
any speak
against
him or
Then
stood
HermoPr
and took
him out of
sent
a
the hall,
it
ring
Draupnir, and
as a
keepsake to
shift
(and)
to
FuUa
on
his
her
thimble.
Then
to
rode
Hermofr
and
Next
told
to
back
all
Asgard,
that
to
Asa
whole world
messengers
of Hell,
earths,
all
men and
trees,
and
must
they
stones,
and
seen
and
all
ores; just as
thou
have
that
frost
these
things
heat.
weep
when
come out of
and into
When
GYLFl's
MOCKING.
home, and
a
75
liad
well
hag
sat,
she
is
named
fJavok;
dry tears
balefire;
Biilclr's
But
son,
men
guess
that
l.aufey's
who
50.
among
the Asa.
ill
Then
said
Gangleri; Very
in that
much
brought
Loki about,
next,
in
iirst
ofall,
that
at all
but
It
was
this
long
feel
it;
when
to
Gods
were
so
wrath with
him
as
was
be
in a certain fell,
that
but often
ness of
hi<fht
him
Frananijr force;
tiick
he to himself
what
force;
the
as
him
in the
now
he
sat
in
his
house he took
flax
and
but a
fire
that
the
76
GVLFl'S MOCKING.
straitway and out into the river, and cast the net
from (him)
into the
fire.
went
first
in he
who was
wisest
of
all
when he saw on
the fire
the ash of the net that had been burnt, then skilled he that must be a trick to take
fish,
and told
a
the
net,
Asa
then
next
they
took
after that
which
they
saw
Loki had madej and when the net was ready, then
fared
the
Asa
to
the river
and
cast
the force: forr held one end, and the other held
all
drew
fared before,
and
lay
knew
that
some-
and they
fare
another
time up to the force, and cast out the net, and bind
up with
be able
netj
it
to
Then
it
fares Loki
before the
to
up over
net
and runs up
ther
force,
to
the
so
force.
Now
he
went,
shift
more up
to
the
and
Avades
now along
the sea.
the midstream,
and
sees
so
they fare
toward
two choices.
GYLFl's MOCKING.
it
77
to sea,
was the
to
swim out
and
the other was to leap again over the net; and that
did
the
he,
top
tried
(and)
leapt
as speedily as
net.
he could over
cord
to
of the
and
his
take hold
of
him,
first
but he slipped in
stayed at the tail,
and
Now
and
them up on edge,
and
each rock; then took they Loki's sons Vali, and Nari
and he tore
his
guts
and
bound Loki
Avith
(them) over
the
un-
der his
loins,
the third
under
his
worm and
venom
but Sigyn
fastened
(it)
that the
his
should
drop
from the
worm on
face;
under
the
full
the
venom drops on
it,
then
is
he so
that
racked with
call
that
the
the twilight
of the Gods.
78
51.
to
I
CYLFTS IWOIKING.
Then
of
the
said
Ganglciij
of the
H;'ir
What
Gods?
tidings
arc
say
twilight
before.
of this have
IMickle
j
not
heard
tidings
is,
answers:
and
of
much
these
are
to
be said thereof
the
first
that
sides,
the frosts
of the sun,
then
come
and
no
summer between;
but
first
come
all
three other
then
said in Vtiluspa.
m;uiy,
Whoredoms
an axeage,
a
and be one
tlic
other's bane;
swordage,
sister's ciiildren
windage,
a wolfage,
hard
is't
doom."
Then
tidings,
happens
the
what
is
to
be thought great
that
men
think
that
great
moanj
then
takes the
other wolf
5
the stars
tiding
that
hurled
the
trees
from
heaven
then
all
is
also
that
whole
earth
and
rocks shake
5
so,
the
are torn
all
up from
fetters
the earth
GYLFI'S MOCKING.
boils
79
for
that
up
the
sea
over the
land,
then
Midgardsworm
the
turns
him
it
in
land:
then
happens
it
that Naglfar
loosed,
nails,
the ship so
hight,
is
and
with
stuff
is
it
man
die
unshorn
towards
wish
floats
nails,
that
man
helpeth
with
much
the
ship
Naglfar,
which
5
Gods and
but in this
men
flood
may be
Naglfar,
Hry'mr
who
steers Naglfar.
at
burns
out
of
his
eyes
so
and
nostrils.
Midgardsthat
worm
fileth
breatheth
all
is
forth
much venom
and be
is
he de-
very ugly,
In
this
and he
on the other
is
side
of the wolf.
cleft
Surtr rides
(is)
first,
after
him
(and)
but
burning
sheen
ride
fire;
it
sword
is
very good,
the
of
brighter
Bifravst
as
is
they
(on)
as
before
the field of
meeting
then
all the
Hrim-
and
all
80
Muspell's
selves,
it
G Y L F I'S M
sons
is
K 1 N G.
have
their
:
band alone
the
by themis
very
bright
held Vigri^r
an
while
then
horn
the Gods,
rideth
meeting
Then
Odin
to
Mimirs
and no thing
the
then
in
heaven or earth
Asa
to
arm
the
fair
them, and
field
:
champions,
and speed
forth
first
rideth
byrnie,
against
his
and
his spear
Gungnir
hight;
he
stands
Fenriswolf,
on
may
Freyr
fights against
Surtr,
falls,
it
and
is
there
his
is
hard
struggle
ere
Freyr
bane that he
Then
is
is
also
become
loose the
hound Garmr,
is
that
the greatest
plague,
are
and they
for
each
other's scathe.
Midgardworm's
nine
feet,
banc,
falls
from
him
then
G\LFl's
that the
MOCK ITS G.
liiiii.
81
worm blows
is
on
Tlie
moH
swallows
Odin,
Vil'arr,
that
his
bane,
but
straitway coinrs on
the
and
steps
nether jaw
for
is
of
the
wolf,
on
which
stuff hath
been agathering
this
men
the toes
or
heels,
the
to
man
help
away
those strips,
who
thinks to
come
takes he
his
gape,
and
that
is
the
Loki hath
other's
strife
they
are
each
fire
is
bane.
earth
Then
and
next
Surtr
all
slingeth
over
it
the
in
burneth
the
world; so
said
Voluspa.
What
what
is't
is't
with Asa?
aloft,
with Elves?
Odin speateth
at
Mimir's head,
The Asa
are met;
shaketh Yggdrasil's
ash straitstanding,
loose."
Hrymr
the
worm
Naglfar
is
loose.
GylJTs Mocking.
82
GYLFl'S.
keel fares east fro,
MOCKING.
Odin's son goeth
to
A
will
Muspell's peoples
sea,
Viparr on
way
powers
He
his
with Frcki
to
all,
lets in the
heart stand
them
is
his
brother
hand-drawn sword,
his sire.
Byleistr in front.
when he venges
Hlodyn
from
his
wrath drops
Midgard's warder;
then will
all
men
mankind
but heaven
cleft.
Then comes
when Odin
to
to
Hlyn
Sun
shall be swart,
fields sink
in sea,
stars
from heaven be
firebreath rageth
cast;
and
bright bane
then will
fall
Frigg's dearest
God.
Heie loo
Is
it
th
a field,
"Vigrigr bight
in
figiit
an hundred miles
is
it
every way;
is
that
CYLFl's MOCKING.
52.
after,
83
conies then
all the
Then
said
is
Ganglerij
What
when heaven
all
world, and
the
champions,
and
that
all
the folk
of
men?
live
for
in
each
man
shall
some world
Then
answers
Har:
;
Many
best
good, and
in
is
many bad
then to be in Gimle
that
bight Brimir,
a good
hall
it
stands also in
heaven. That
Ni|>a-fells
also
which stands on
wrought of
red gold,
good
mickle
men and
hall
it
wellminded.
a
On
Na-strand
is
and
also
ward;
like
is
Avrought
a wattled
turn
into
blow venom
so that rivers of
rivers
venom
and those
wade
it is
murderers and
here
said.
hall stands
I
who
forswear themselves, as
"A
far
wis
that hall
is
woven
Na-strand upon
north look the doors:
venom drops
fall
men
forsworn
in through loopholes.
and menslayers."
is
But in Hvergelmir
worst
84
53.
GYLFTS MOCKING,
Then
said
or
is
there
earth shoots
sea,
is
green
and
live,
fair,
the fields
that
wax unsown.
ViJ>arr
and Vali
fire
so
hath
lI>avollr,
where
was before;
come
mind
tidings
once had: so
is
it
said.
when
Surtr's fire
is blacli,
But
in
the
men
lie
Leifl>rasir,
meat
but
is
here said.
Dew
is
of the morning
for
hid
what they
meat have,
in Hodmiinir'.s holt,
thee
wondrous,
is
that
GlfLFl'S
less
MOCKING.
and she
is
85
ihen in the
fair
than
herself,
as
fares
said.
steps of her
mother^
here
"Daughter one
bears AlfravPull
That maid
shall ride,
But
I
now
if
come
to thee;
for that
never heard
faring,
any man
tell
and
enjoy
thou canst.
Then
and when he
flat
sees
stands
he without on a
vale,
then no hall
his road,
and
into
his
kingdom,
and
says
those
tidings
he has seen
and heard,
and
after
him each
man
'
6-?C<.VV'"i/
-^ ^U<.
y^^,^
#W*VW
86
BRAGFS TELLING.
1.
One man
isle
is
named
yEgir or Hler,
Hler's isle,
his
lie
abode
ia
the
that
is
now
called
he was
to
very skilled in
gard,
treated
spells.
He went on
Asa
way
As-
but
Avhen
the
wist of his
coming they
him
with good
fare,
false
tiiongh
many
and
at
things
were then
wrought with
should drink,
shows
let
even
when
into
it
they
the
then
Odin be borne
tliat
hall
glistened
light
tlie
down
to drink
then go
Asa to their guild, and (he twelve Asa who are wont
to
doom
set
them on
I>6r,
their
liighseatsj
and so were
they named.
NjorSr,
Freyr,
H;TcnIr,
Tyr, Heimdallr,
Foiseti.
UHr,
And
like-
Frigg,
Freya,
It
Gefiun
Ifunn,
grand
the
Gcrfr,
Sigun,
Fulla,
Nanna.
seemed
wall were
tiled
with
fair
shields
tlicrc
was
next
talk
man
to
^gir
sat
tiieir
much
together over
tidings
of
many
BRAGl'S TELLING.
2.
87
the talc,
how
three
Asa,
Hasnir, fared
from home,
off
meat,
but
as
they
came down
in'to
certain
ox and
about seething
itj
now when
lift
they think
broth, and
it
the
lid,
after a
time was
among
Then
that
how
thing
could
happen.
hear
up above them,
it is
said he
in
who
sat
not sodden
sat
looked thither,
and there
an
eagle
and
no
little
one:
Then
"An ye
then
me my
of the ox,
shall
be sodden
then he
in
the seething."
To
that
let
himself sink
down out
up
straitway
first
of
all
both shoulders:
a
with
;
all
his
might,
body
him
fast
after the
blow and
the other end: the eagle flys just so high that Loki's
88
feet
liis
BRAG
take
I'S
TELLING.
trees,
hands
thinks will
for peace,
loose,
get
unless he takes an
him
to
come
along
with
is
but Loki
then
is
is
he loosed
and goes
to his
and
it
how
they
fared
before they
came home.
But
at
certain
wood, and
she
found
some apples
and begged
Avhich
that
will
Then comes
and
takes
thither
the
flys
giant
in
eagleshape,
ll'unn
to his
and
at ease
ll^unn,
old.
Then held
last
known about
ll>unn,
and
witii
it
was
:
last
Loki
brought
to
tiie
was
then
tlireatencd
him,
he
but
when
he became
he
if
said
A\oiiId
seek after
ifunn
in
Jtitunheim,
that she
him
the falconshape
halh:
and
when he
gets the
falconshape.
BRAGI'S TELLING.
89
he
to
flys
fiazi
he
at
but
into
home:
of a nut,
fast
his
J'iazi
claws,
and
as
as
he can.
But when
his
misses ifunn,
he takes
eagle-
after Loki,
the flight.
flew with
went
they
of
out
under Asgard,
for
firing
bundles
chips
falcon
(Logaspoenir).
And
when
let
the
flew
within
himself sink
fire
down
Asa set
to the chips,
stop himself
when he missed
and then
and took
from
slew
that
him
J>iazi
his
flight:
the
giant
is
within
Asgard's grates,
and
slaughter
all-famous.
of
I>iazi
and
all
wai'gear,
and comes
Asa
first
to
but
the
bade
thing
her
is,
atonement
and the
choose her a
feet
the
Asa,
see
wondrous
and
said,
I,
90
few
BRAG IS TELLING.
things will be loathly about Balldr.''
But
this
it
She had
also
in
and
was
to
he tyed a
other
to
end
afterward one
pulled this
way
then
out
loud:
Loki
let
himself
on
SkaJ^i's
her
at
the
so
it
hands
is
of
the
Asa
was brought
about:
and
said
that
and
cast
them up
into heaven,
stars twain.
methinks
was
Bracfi
I'iazi
himself;
biit
of
kin
was he?
and
it
answers: Avlvaldi
to the
hiirht
if I
his father,
tell
will
seem
worth mark
in
thee of him.
He
his
gold
meaeach
sure
for
the
gold
which they
shared,
that
all
even as
many. The
the
third
first
of them
was
fiazi,
it
the second if i,
Gangr;
to
in
but
we have
the
now
as a
saw
among,
giants,
us,
call
gold
mouthtalc
of these
this
but
runes or songship
we wrap
up
BRAGI'S TELLING.^
SO,
91
that
we
call
it
the
measure,
said
or
saw,
or tale
is
''"(
of these giants.
well
Then
runes.
TEgir,"
metliinks that
t ;*
hidden
3.
in
I^IHiMM^ ^
J5]gir;
And
that
again
said
call
Whence
have ye
^'^C*^*^{/t^^V*-
that
It
craft
ye
songship?
Bragi answers;
Wv
M/Ti
A\as
Gods had
feud
with
that bight
a
last)
it
and
spat into
their
spittle;
but
at
it,
that
a
mark of peace
perish,
and
he
shaped
is
out
of
that
man,
asks
who
him
hight
Kvasir:
so
wise
none
to
any
things that he
fared
answer;
and he
teach
men wisdom,
to
but
when
he
came
at
their
bidding
certain
blood run
they
called
into
two
jars
and one
jars
kettle,
and
this
O^raerir,
but the
BoSn:
they
blended
and
thereof Avas
of
it
whosoever drinks
wisdom, for
be able
to
wise
to
ask
learnincf.
92
BRA
Then
CI'S
TELLING.
to
wife, then
sea
Gilh'ngr to
row out
overturned the
skiffj
Gillingr was
no
righted
his
skiff
and
rowed to land:
wife
ill
and
wept
aloud.
Then
Fialar
if
asked
her,
if
it
would
easier,
and she
said
would;
then
spake he
that he should go
up over
doorway
as she
went
out,
and
let
the quernstone
fall
said he
Now when
this,
he
fares thither
to
and
scar
bears
flooded
their
his
them out
at
sea,
and
sets
them on
lives,
in
atonement for
father's
an
atonement between
in
and
sets
there
this
to
guard
his
daughter
Kvasir's
Gunnlavfa.
From
call
we songship
I'lll;
or some kind of
BR A GI'S TELLING.
liquor of OSraerir or
freight,
93
or the dwarves
life-
BoSn or Son
(because that
ransom
from
the
scar)
mead,
or
Hnitbiorg's liquor.
4.
Then
call
said
^girj
Methinks
it
is
darkly
said,
to
But
how
came
the Asa
Suttungrs mead?
is,
Bragi answers:
The
that
thralls nine
he asks
if
hone
from
his belt,
their scythes
seemed
if
to
them
bite
much
better,
the
it,
sale;
on
should give a
fair
sum
it),
for
now
to
him, but he
cast
the hone
up
aloft;
and
as all
on
his
it,
that each
brought
a night's lodging
that
tungr's brother.
gone
slain
ill
and
him
had
workmen.
him Bavlverkr;
upon him
the
94
Baugi,
but
Baugi quoth
it
all
alone,
but he said he
if
would
oet the
fare
they could
the
mead.
Bavlverkr
for
won
durinij
summer
nine
men's work
Baugi,
but
at
winter asked
Then
away:
Baugi told
his
brother
Suttungr
bargain with
Then
try
said
they
should
some
trick
then
drew
Piati,
and
said that
bite
Baugi
bore
the rock
says Baugi
if
that the
rock
is
bored
through,
the
but
Bavlverkr blows
into the
hole that
borer
had
made,
and
the
that
splinters flew
up
against
him,
and
he
worm's
likeness,
made by
the borer,
but
stuck
him
BR A Gl'S TELLING.
lay
95
then
she
with
leave
first
her
to
three
nights,
and
gave
him
the
drink
of
the
all
drink he
drank
second
all
out of Son,
and
into
so
had he
eagle's
the
mead
an
shape
and flew
as
he
could.
But
he
took
on
they
out
in
the of
yard
their jars:
came
inside
Asgard
it
he
spewed
mead
that
but
him
mead
after
of that, he
call
it,
and that we
gave Odin
wit
to
the
Asa,
and
to
use
therefore
call
we songship Odin's
and
his gift,
prey,
and
find,
and
his drink,
and
96
FOREWORD TO THE
1.
EDDA,
beginning
Almighty
God
and
shaped
all
in
the
that
heaven
and
earth,
things
belong to
them, and
races are
last
(of all)
men
twain, from
whom
the
and
this
kindred
all
waxed
more and
the world.
the folk of
right-
trowing, but
of
the
many more
and
took
world,
this
and for
drowned God
was
quick
world
in
the flood,
and
all
that
in
who were
men were
and
alive,
they
who
the
that
abode
stock of
in
the
world,
from
them came
as
men,
and
it
chanced now
before,
when
over,
mankind
waxed,
and
a
the
world was
dwellt
of
this
much,
that
at
last
who would
tell
who could
his
sons
FORRNVORU TO
TH
F,
EDDA.
so
it
97
And
came
tliat
they
tint
God's name,
and
who shaped
them
earthly
him.
gifts,
But
did
God
give
wealth
in
and happiness,
;
which
the world
that
he shared also
so
they skilled to
know
all
in
and on
earth.
at,
how
it
earth
and
beasts
ture in
It
some
one
be
things,
was
mark
nature,
that
the earth
might
water
delved
into
on
sprang up there,
and
needed not
5
to
dig
just
and
to
with
beasts
and fowl,
in
it
is
no farther
the
it,
that
all
away and
rotsj so
also
on
beasts
feathers,
and
falls off
every
it
The
is
that
when
mould
uppermost on the
Rocks
t
Foreword
to tke Edila
against
these
the bones
and
teeth
things
quick.
From
was wonderin
and mighty
her
ail
told
(back)
their
race
her. that
many hun-
dred
winters
were
told
back,
From
who could
that
stay
their
going at
his
own
will,
and
this
he
and of
first
one weened
he swayed
(these)
if
he ruled the
goings
of
he must
sway
the
heaven's dew,
and
earth's growth,
and
so
also
the winds in
sea.
the
and
'JMiey
still
they trowed
the
lift,
ruled
all
things, on
earth and in
balls,
of
lieaven
and
the
heavenly
of seas, and
v\eathei-.
99
and
kept
Avith
in
mind,
same name
changed
in
many
In
his
Noe
the
world with
lands,
his
sons;
for
for
Cham
he
meant
the western
and
Sem
ward be
marked out
in
then
fjrew
for
stronc;
and
power;
that
ihey
crafts
which
up with
his
And
so
long
made war on
their
oflTspring
kinsmen abode
it
seemed
to
them
the world
smithied a
tower
and
stone,
which they
And when
it
this
ward
that
and they
the
eagerness to hold
sees
on with
work;
liigh,
and
when God
how
their pride
rages
100
it
all-powerful,
in
and
down
their Avork
the
tAvinkling of an
eye, and
dust,
yet
in
willed
this
in
he
wise,
that
purpose
own
littleness,
none
of
them should
knew what
him
down what
they strove
until
that
among
themselves,
and with
this their
purpose
in
came
to
naught.
he
the
And he
laughed
that
Zoroastrcs,
before
wept when he
came
into
world, but
so
the
land,
waxed
On
this
bura' the
most famous,
and
it's
And
it
was
so
when
the
was, then
things,
waxed many
that
and
was
laid
by
the
said
smithying,
bore
he on to
worldly
power,
and
let
himself be
chosen king
lUl
liiiu
many
arose
bewildeiing
Gods,
13aal,
and
after he -was
call Bel
whoni we
many
other names,
along
at
the
sin then
worshipped
man
that
came
and beasts
lift
and heavenly
and countless
none
knew
the
men alone
who spake
fore
Ebrew
the
not the
for
that
that
to
they
skilled
deem
earthly
skill,
for
wisdom of
stuff.
The
from
(one)
and
till
the
Midthe
land-sea,
tbat
was
share
lot
called
is
Affrika,
but
south
sun.
side
of this
hot and
llie
is
burnt by the
west
until
The
second
to
from
that
the
north and
up
the sea,
side
called
Evropa or
that grass
of this
it
is
cold,
in.
so
grows
not,
nor
may
l)e
duellt
I'rom
the
102
E1H)A.
all
to
the south,
is
called
Asia,
in
that lot
oF the
world
all
fairness,
fruitCulncss
is
also the
midworld, and
better kind than
as the earth
in
is
there fairer
and of
of
man
wisdom
and strength,
4.
^-
and
all
knowledge.
Near the
''.
*4X<
the
t'l^t
house
and
inn,
'
(>TOl</(
^vas called
Troja,
there
the land
we
call
Tyrkland.
,.Ap
much
bigger
than
others,
and with
more
craft
in
many
ways,
riches that
There
much
there
folk
and
in
land
the
belonged
to
each kingdom:
were
burg twelve
all
lords;
been
in
all
before
men who
have been
the world
manly
things.
said
and for
country
the
tale
men
of the north
set
among
of the
self
of
Gods,
of
all all
town,
just
first
Priamus'
in
may
that be
Priamus
the
same
whom
FOKKSVORi) TO THE
the
KII>A.
to
1<)3
north
be hinjsell
God.
5.
This
Satiirniis
hi<>ht
waxed
Krit,
up
lie
in
tliat
island
in
Greekland's sea
fairer
was
sfreater
and
was
stronger and
his
So
like
also
wisdom before
gifts;
of
all
men,
his other
natural
he found also
lie
many
was
crafts
which before
mickle
in the
also so
knew
gold,
and
from
such
he
things
as
these he
also
became
and
speedily
powerful;
foretold
harvests
many
other
isle,
other
this
and many
deeds
they
him
steered
all
to
it
then
kinds of plenty.
There
a store
of
gold
and
though
crops
times in
so that
other
lands, no
men might
that
and
so
many
gifts
they trowed
him
to
another bewildering
donians,
just as the
among
first
the
among
and
104
liow
great
the that
folk
tliink
is
thoy
have in
calls
him,
then
says
he
he
God,
all
and
things.
Once on
Greek-
whom
he had
set
his
this wise,
one
then
lay
that
day
took
as
she
he
on
in
him
the
and
before
a
her
wood,
and
so
fair
was he
golden
hair:
and Avhen
him on
to Kri't,
When
his wife
Juno
the likeness of a heifer, and sent her eastward the Nile country, and
lot
into
the
thrall
hight Argulus
lend
her,
tliere
was
she
twelve
months ere he
he like this,
the
first
Many
things did
more wondrous.
He had
three sons,
higlit
They were
mighty men,
a
man
of
kingdoms^
took
father,
and
so
on
beasts,
is
and
mankind
unable
105
thinijs,
be done: and
all
in
this
wise and
by other
is
he awed
peoples, so that
Jupiter
set in foir's
Satiirnus
be
raised
up
in
Krit two
fast-
his
realm, .then
set
shared
he
it
with his
as
whom
to
he had
up with himself
Gods:
and
and
to
Plutushell,
it
him
his
that
was the
worst,
so
he
gave him
he might guard
this
Erkulus
though
dragged
Satvirnus
out
of hell
up
to
earth.
And
had
own
earth also,
realm
of his father;
geld
so
it
is
said
he
like
let
take
and
says
let
him,
and
;
great
works
this
he
he
the
is
God
say that he
parts
be taken
and
they
cast
and
longtime
a
in
trowed
,
that
made
her
woman
the
whom
of
tale
the
Gods, and
called the
hearts of
men
and
women
to
love.
When
Satiirnus
was gelded
106
FOREWORD TO THK
his son,
EI)
DA.
by Jupiter
Kiit,
and hither
and
grass,
and
lay
in
caves or holes
in
the earth:
thither, then
,
changed he
he
son
him
He
first
taught the
men
there to plough
they took
him
all
many
many
burgs.
sons from
Jiipiler his
son had
his
whom
his
the
races
are
come;
his son
son
was Dardanus,
son llus,
son Herikon,
Tros,
his
his son
Lamedon,
had many
been most
father of
sons,
one of
of
famous
all
men
in
the
world for
all
manly
deeds of knightly
that
rank;
and
all
it
is
found written,
when
the Greeks,
and
down on
men,
had
called
never
had
that
after-
FOREWORD TO THE
ward
was done.
after
just
EDl>A.
107
And
came
first,
gave
the
themselves
as
most famous
so
it
men
that
after their
many
the
things,
is
said their
built
as
Romans turned
as
customs
after
near
those
had.
And
so mickle
many
ages after
when Pompeius
Romans
away
then
(and) Odin
fled
hither
his
men
their
bis
where
whether
the
it
stood
was
called
tliat
And
of himself out of
boasting, or that
had been so
in
the
mingling of
that
for a
tongues, yet
have
many
wise
men
held
therefrom.
A king
in
a
,
Troja bight
Munon
or
Mennon,
who
bight Tror,
in
(him
call
we
Traci'a
who
is
named
old
l.oricus.
Now when
bis
was
ten
winters
then
took
be to him
108
lather's
FOaEVVOUl) TO THE
arms; so
as
fair
1> I)
A.
of face was he
ivory
is
when
lie
stood
by other men
is
wlien
set
in
fairer
than
gold.
When
once,
he
lifted
hides
at
and
call
took
for
his
own
the
realm of Tracia,
fared
that
we priiSheim.
and
Then
land
knew
the
all
countries
of
and
baresarks, and
and
one
the
of
many
he
that
beasts.
In the
north
Sibil,
world
call
found
Sif,
spaewife hight
to wife.
wiiom we
tell
None
fairest,
can
her
Sif's
stock, she
as
Avomen
hair
like
was
his
gold,
his
son
Avas
Loride
who
was
father,
Moda,
his son
Magi,
whom
we
his
his
call
son Heremod,
Skiold, his son
his son
son
Skialldunn,
whom we
Biaf,
whom we
Fiarleif,
is
call Biar,
GuSolfr,
his son
wliom we
call
son
lie
his
who
Avas
Avife
named
famous
V6j>inn,
him
call
y\c
all
Opinn,
ciafl,
man
for
Avisdoin
call
and
highl
Frigi'oa
who we
Frigg.
109
his
his
wife,
and from
this
name
would be
held high
many
costly
But whithersoever
tljey
land
much fame
to
was
said
of
them,
that they
were thought
stayed
into
not
their
till
that
land
now
Saxland,
far
there
dwelt
that land
and
wide for
sons
to
own.
There
set
is
named Yeggdegg, he
over
East Saxland,
was
his
king
and
ruled
ther
Heingez,
call
and
Sigarr
father of
Svebdegg,
of Oj'ina
whom we
land
Svipdag.
bight Beldegg,
whom we
Vestfal,
Balldr, he
owned
that
his
now
bight
son Frio|>igar,
Freovit, his son
whom we
call
Frof a
his
son was
call
whom we
named
in
is
These
forefathers
swayed
the land
now
called
come
the race
110
that
aiul
is
Vavlsiingar.
From
all
many
II.
races come.
his
way northward,
and
land,
came
and
had
set
for
own
in
that land
his
all
that
he would, he
up
son that
is
the
come
that
are the
now
Jotland
which Mas
fared
he northward thither
to
the
land
is
now
hight
SvifioS,
who
named
Gylfi, but
when he
faring of
these
Asiamen,
he fared to
meet
them
and
in
bade
that
as
Of inn
should have so
5
much power
his
realm
he himself willed
and
the land,
all
peace
this
and
and
too the
were
unlike
men whom
that land
they
had
seen in
fairness
and
In
were
a
fair lands,
and he choose
it
burg, where
lords,
is
now
called
he set
up
in to
there
in
the
same
likeness
had been
the
stead
Troja,
and
set
twelve
headmen
FOREWORD TO THE
doom
rights the
as
F.DDA.
Ill
all
tlie
and he so moulded
in
been
before
Troja,
and
as
fared
he
tiiey
northward
trowed
to
until
lie
he
fell
upon
lands,
the sea,
which
about
all
and
set
up there
is
his
now
hight
kings
Norway; he
tell
called
their
race
up
to
and
but
said
in
Haleygiatale
Oj>inn
had
with
him
that
in
son of his
who
is
to
the
many,
the
so
that
ahout
Saxland, and
they
all
thence
the
about
tongue
all
north country
spread
so,
(hat
of these lands;
tliat
these
the
way
names names
of
these
forefathers are
to
this
written,
that
these
have
belonged
the
Norway and
Saxland; but
into Sviin
Jiod,
into
Denmark and
are old
skill
into
Eng-
land
there
know
that
this.
112
AFTERWORD TO
But the Asa
tlieir
GYLFl'S MOCKING.
set
them now
mind
all
to
talk,
and take
rede and
call
to
were
told
that are
named
5
before, to the
men and
when long
steads that
were there
by,
for
times pass
men
whom
the
these tales
were now
Avcre
told,
and these
all
to
whom
same names
there
given,
I'orr,
r,
were
one.
is
Then was
the
those
(one)
called
is
and he
to
Asajorr,
old one he
Okufoi
and
Troja; but
men
think that
the
foes.
AFTER-
113
AFTERWORD TO THE
1.
EDDA.
Cut
this
is
now
to
to tliose
who
lor
song, or
their store of
or
sung
darkly;
be so forgotten or disproved,
away from
men trow
found
said
in
book,
the
where
of
it
is
folk
and
how
the Asiamen
who
were done
trow
Troja,
that
them
2.
to
be
Gods.
in
Priamus king
Troja
was
his
a great lord
over
all
and
worshipped of
the
his
host,-
Asa
called
Brimir's
hall or Biorsair,
was
king
Priam's hall;
to the
but as for
Edda.
the long
story they
Afterword
114
made
the
twilight
of
the
that
Gods,
which
is
that
is
the
said,
how
on
life
an
oxhead,
the
and
drew
board Midgardsworm,
so
this
but
the
worm
that
kept his
is
that
he
sank
into
sea;
said
from
champion,
the
sight
to
of
the
mighty
Akillevs,
which
they
likened
the head of
the ox
which
<)ku|6rr
had
this
torn ofF:
risk
through
fled
it
then
his life's
help that he
stroke of Hector,
it
and
as
was wounded:
also
is
said
that
rage
when he saw
that
it
Akillevs,
no
thing
was so strong
might stand
when he
wise,
wrath
in
this
that
Ymir
But
in
the
twilight
of
the
J>6r,
him
to
bane,
so fared,
it
that
any
thou'd) so
had been,
115
true,
his
when
gardsworm
this,
there
bane,
that
though
Akillevs
same
field in
same way
this
that
Alexander,
that he
Elenus
his
They say
avenged
when
all
the
Asgard
Gods:
slew
but
Pirrus
likened
Fenriswolf,
he
Odin,belief,
that he spared
not holysteads
when he
altar.
slew
the
king
in
the
shrine
before
is
J>6r's
call
Surtr's
fire,
Troja's burning.
came
to crave
Eneas, he
came away
also said
set
came
to
Frigialand
and
themselves
up
in
that
realm
and
drave
away Elenus.
FINIS.