HEIMDALL. ",\:> 



It is guessed that this was Loki Laufeyjarson, who had caused 

 most evils among the Asar." 



" Then also the dog Garni, which is tied in front of Gnipa 

 cave, got loose ; he is the greatest terror, he fights Tyr and 

 they kill each other" (Gylfaginning, c. 5). 



The wicked seem to have died twice : first they die and 

 get into Hel, then they die again and get into Niflliel - 

 Fotjgij Hel. The following is one of the answers of Vafthrud- 

 nir to Odin : 



Of the runes 1 of Jotnar In every world : 



And those of ail the gods I have gone to nine 



I can tell thee true, Worlds beneath Nifi-hel ; 



For I have been There die the raen from Hel. 



The sides of the rirn of heaven communicate with each other 

 by a bridge called Bifrost, or the bridge of the Asar, on which 

 Heimdall, the watchman of the gods, stood. 



" Heimdall is the watchman of the gods standing on Bifrost 

 Bridge (the rainbow) " (Later Edcla, 27). 



" Heimdall is named the White As : he is great and holy ; 

 nine maidens bore him as son, and thev were all sisters. He 



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is also called Hallinskidi and Gullintanni (gold tooth). His 

 teeth were of gold, his horse is called gold maned. He lived 

 at a place called Himinbjorg (heaven mountains) by Bifrost. 

 He is the warden of the gods, and sits there at the end of 

 heaven to guard the bridge against the Berg Eisar (mountain 

 Jotnar) ; he needs less sleep than a bird, he can see equally 

 by night and by day a hundred leagues away, and he hears 

 when the grass grows, or the wool on the sheep, and all that 

 is louder than these. He has the horn called Gjallarhorn, and 

 his blowing is heard through all worlds. The sword of Heimdall 

 is called Hofud " (Gylfaginning, 27). 



We find that the Jotuar and Asar were separated from each 

 other by a large river whose waters never freeze. 



I'afthrudnir, 



Tell me, Gagurad, &c., 

 How the river is called 



Which divides the land 

 Between the sons of Jotnar and the 

 sods. 



1 In Sigurdrifumal it is said the runes were in the holy eiead. sent to Asar, 



Alfar, and Vanir. 



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