Hurled Spear

24 Then all the Powers went to the thrones of fate,
the sacrosanct gods, and considered this:
whether the Æsir should yield the tribute
or whether all the gods should share sacrificial feasts.

25 Odin hurled a spear, sped it into the host;
that was war still, the first in the world;
the wooden rampart of the Æsir’s stronghold was wrecked;
the Vanir, with a war-spell, kept on trampling the plain.

26 Then all the Powers went to the thrones of fate,
the sacrosanct gods, and considered this:
which people had troubled the air with treachery,
or given Od’s girl to the giant race.


- Poetic Edda, Völuspá