Mode and Magne
Vingner's Mjolner shall have
When the fight is ended.[1]
In a place called Hodmimer's-holt[2] are concealed two persons during Surt's fire, called Lif and Lifthraser. They feed on the morning dew. From these so numerous a race is descended that they fill the whole world with people, as is here said:
Lif and Lifthraser
Will lie hid
In Hodmimer's-holt.
The morning dew
They have for food.
From them are the races descended.[3]
But what will seem wonderful to you is that the sun has brought forth a daughter not less fair than herself, and she rides in the heavenly course of her mother, as is here said:
A daughter
Is born of the sun
Ere Fenrer takes her.
In her mother's course
When the gods are dead
This maid shall ride.[4]
And if you now can ask more questions, said Har to Ganglere, I know not whence that power came to you. I have never heard any one tell
