Making Dwarves Hauksbók

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

10 Then Motsognir became most famous of
all dwarfs, and Durin next;
They made many manlike figures,*
dwarfs out of the earth, as Durin recounted.

11 New-moon and Dark-of-moon, North and South,
East and West, Master-thief, Dvalin,
Corpse and Nain, Niping and Dain,
Liquor and Staff-elf, Wind-elf and Thorin.

12 Bivor, Bavor, Bombur, and Nori,
An and Anar, Great-grandfather and Mead-wolf,
Thrar and Thrainn, Thror, Colour and Wise,
New and New-advice: now I have rightly
—Regin and Counsel-clever—reckoned up the warriors.

13 Fili and Kili, Foundling and Nali,
Haft and Vili, Hanar and Svid,
Corpse and Nain, Niping and Dain,
Billing, Bruni, Bild and Buri,
Frar and Forn-bogi, Fræg and Sea-pool.

14 Loam-field, Iari, Oakenshield.
Time it is to tally up the dwarfs in Dvalin’s troop,
for the children of men, to trace them back to Lofar;
for those who sought out from Hall-Stone,
the dwelling of Loam-field on Ior-vellir.

15 There were Draupnir and Dolgthrasir,
Greyhair, Mound-river, Lee-wolf, Glow,
Skirvir, Virvir, Skafid, and Great-grandfather,
Elf and Yngvi, Oakenshield.

16 They’ll be remembered while the world endures,
the long list of ancestors, going back to Lofar.


- Poetic Edda, Völuspá (Hauksbók version)


("They made: here the gods, it seems, create the dwarfs." - from the Explanatory Notes section included with the translation)