Making Dwarfs Poetic Edda

9 Then all the Powers went to the thrones of fate,
the sacrosanct gods, and considered this:
who should create the lord of the dwarfs
out of Brimir’s blood and from Blain’s limbs?

10 There Motsognir became most famous of
all dwarfs, and Durin next;
Many manlike figures the dwarfs made,
out of the earth, as Durin recounted.

11 New-moon and Dark-of-moon, North and South,
East and West, Master-thief, Dvalin,
Bivor, Bavor, Bombur, and Nori,
An and Anar, Great-grandfather and Mead-wolf.

12 Liquor and Staff-elf, Wind-elf and Thrain,
Known and Thorin, Thror, Colour and Wise,
Corpse and New-advice: now I have rightly
—Regin and Counsel-clever—reckoned up the dwarfs.

13 Fili and Kili, Foundling and Nali,
Haft and Vili, Hanar and Sviur,
Frar and Hornborer, Fræg and Sea-pool,
Loam-field, Iari, Oakenshield.

14 Time it is to tally up the dwarfs in Dvalin’s troop,
for the children of men, to trace them back to Lofar;
those who sought out Frar’s Hall-stone,
the dwelling of Loam-field on Iorovellir.

15 There were Draupnir and Dolgthrasir,
Greyhair, Mound-river, Lee-plain, Glow,
Skirvir, Virvir, Skafid, and Great-grandfather.

16 Elf and Yngvi, Oakenshield,
Fialar and Frosty, Finn and Ginnar;
they’ll be remembered while the world endures,
the long list of ancestors, going back to Lofar.


- Poetic Edda, Völuspá