Rides the road her mother rode.
Who the guardian maidens are
That hover round the haunts of men?
Wander through the peopled earth:
One to guard the hours of love:
One to haunt the homely hearth,
One to cheer the festal board.
Who shall sway the Asa-realms,
When the flame of Surtur fades?
Heirs the empty realm of gods:
Mothi's then and Magni's night
Sways the massy mallet's weight,
Won from Thor, when Thor must fall.
Who shall end the life of Odin
When the gods to ruin rush?
Slay the ire of rolling years:
Vithar shall avenge his fall,
And struggling with the shaggy wolf[2]
Shall cleave his cold and gory jaw,
What did Odin's lip pronounce
To his Balder's hearkening car.
When he climb'd the pyre of death?
Knows the words which thou hast spoken
To thy son in days of yore.
I hear the coming tread of death,
He soon shall raze the Runic lore
And knowledge of the rise of Gods,
From his ill-fated soul who strove
With Odin's self the strife of wit.
Wisest of the wise that breathe,
Our stake was life and thou hast won.
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- ↑ Vali and Vithar are apparently the gods of death and sleep. Mothi signifies mould, corruption; and Magni nobody: so that these allegories obviously describe the state of the departed.
- ↑ Vitnis, wolf, is here mistaken for a proper name by the Danish interpreter; and for a name of Odin by the English poet.
cold climate. Among savages every male is a foe, every female a friend. Displeasing and unwelcome objects therefore are in their languages masculine, pleating and welcome objects feminine. In hot countries where the night is more welcome than the day, an opposite allotment of gender takes place.
