Sink

53 Then comes Hlodyn’s glorious boy:
Odin’s son advances to fight the serpent,
he strikes in wrath Midgard’s-protector,
all men must abandon their homesteads;
nine steps Fiorgyn’s child takes,
exhausted, from the serpent which fears no shame.

54 The sun turns black, land sinks into the sea,
the bright stars vanish from the sky;
steam rises up in the conflagration,
hot flame plays high against heaven itself.

55 Now Garm bays loudly before Gnipa-cave,
the fetter will break and the ravener run free,
much wisdom she knows, I see further ahead
to the mighty Doom of Gods, of the victory-gods.

56 She sees, coming up a second time,
earth from the ocean, eternally green;
the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,
over the mountain hunting fish.

57 The Æsir find one another on Idavoll
and they converse about the mighty Earth-girdler,
and Fimbultyr’s ancient runes.

58 There will be found again in the grass
the wonderful golden chequers,
those which they possessed in the bygone days.

59 Without sowing the fields will grow,
all evil will be healed, Baldr will come;
Hod and Baldr will settle down in Hropt’s victory-homesteads,
the slaughter-gods are well—do you want to know more: and what?

60 Then Hænir will choose a wooden slip for prophecy,
and two brothers’ sons build a settlement
in the wide wind-realm—do you want to know more: and what?


- Poetic Edda, Voluspa