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Both fhall walk the way of years 
Till the twilight of the Gods. 
Odin, Once again—if thou can tell, 
Narne the firft of Ymer’s fons, — 
-Eldeft of the Afa-race ? 
Vaft. While the yet unthapen earth 
Lay conceal’d in wintry womb, 
Bergelmer had long been born: 
He from Thrugelmer defcends, 
Aurgelmer’s unbrother’d fon. 
Odin. Once again—if thou can tell 
Whence, the firft of all the Jutes, 
Father Aurgelmer is fprung ? 
Vaft. From the arm of *Vagom fell 
The curdled drops of teeming blood 
That grew and form’d the firft of Jutes. 
Sparks that fpurted from the fouth 
Inform’d with life the crimfon dew. 
Odin. Yet a feventh time declare, 
If fo far thy wifdom reach, 
How the Jute begat his brood 
Tho? denied a female’s love? - 
Vaft. Within the hollow of his hands, 
To the water-giant grew 
Both a male and female feed: 
Alfo foot with foot begat 
A fon-in whom the Jute might joy. 
Odin. I conjure tlice tell me now; 
What within the bounds of fpace 
Firft befell of all that’s known? 
Vajt. While the yet unthapen earth 
Lay conceal’d in win’try womb, 
Bergelmer had long been born; 
Firft of all recorded things, 
Is that his gigantic length 
Floated on the ocean-wave. 
Odin. Once again, if thou can fay 
And fo far thy wifdom reach, 
Tell me whence proceeds the wind 
O’er the earth and o’er the fea 
That journeys viewlefs to mankind ? 
Vaft. +Hrefvelger isthe name of him, 
Who fits beyond the ends of heaven, 
And winnows wide his eaglewings, 
Whence the {weeping blafts have birth. 
Odin. If thy all-embracing mind 
Know the whole lineage of the gods, 
Tell me whence is Niord fprung ? 
Holy hills and halls hath he 
Tho’ not born of Afa-race. 
Vaft. For him the deftly-delving fhowezs 
In Vaunheim f{cop’d a wat’ry home, 
And pledg’d it to the upper Gods: 
But when the fmoak of ages climbs 
He with his VYauns fhall ftride abroad, 
Nor {pare the long-refpetted fhore. 

* Vagom, WAVES, OCEAN. 
paflage- 
+ Mrafvelger, confe-greedy. 
Tranflation from the Edda. 
The wares, the 
Pubjects of Niord the fea-god, are often per— 
fonified in Scaldic fong 5 and are called Vanes 
and Vauns in Percy's (Mallet. For what reaion 
' two words have been contraéted into one t@ 
form the proper name Eliyagi appears nat: 
yet Goranfon and all the authorities coun- 
tenance Mr. Cottle’s interpretation of this 
Odin. If thy all-embracing mind 
Kaow the whole of mytftic lore, : 
Tell me how the chofen heroes*® — 
Live in Odin’s fhield-deck’d hall 
Till the ruth of ruin’d gods. 
Voft. Ail the chofen guefts of Odin 
Daily ply the trade of war: 
From the fields of feftal fight 
Swift they ride in gleaming arms, 
And gaily at the board of gods 
Quaff the cup of 1parkling ale, 
And eat Sehrimni’s vaunted flefh. 
fDec. 
Odin. Twelfthly, tell me, king of Jutes, 
What of all thy Runic lore 
Is moft certain, fure, and true ? 
Vaft. 1am vers’d iv Runic lore 
And the counfels of the gods’ ; ~ 
For Pve wander’d far and wide, 
Nine the nations I have known 3 
And in all, that overarch 
The murky+ mitts and chills of hel!, 
Men are daily feen to die. ; 
Odin. Far P’ve wander’d much fojourn’é 
¥n the kingdoms of the earth; 
But [ve fill a wifh to know 
How the fons of men fhall live, 
When the iron winter comes ? 
Vaft, Life and warmth fhall hidden lie 
In the well-head that {Mimis feeds, 
With dews of morn and thaws of eve: 
Thefe again fhall wake mankind. ' 
Odin. Far Pve wander’d much fojourn’éd 
In the kingdoms of the earth, 
But Ive ftill a‘wifh to know 
Whence, todeck the empty fkies; 
Shall another fun be drawn, 
When the jaws of Fenrir ope 
To ingorge the lamp of day ? 
Vaft. Exe the throat of Fenrir yawr 
Shall the § fun a daughter bear, 

* The Danith interpreters render Einberiar 
by Monoherces, whereas it feems rather 
te 
anfwer to the Teutonic Anberr, patriarch, 
anceftor, forefather. What idea fhould 
be 
annexed to this: newly minted term monobero 2 
That of Champion, perhaps of a warrior, 
who, by /olitary exploits and without co-ope- 
yation, attaing the heroic rank: In this cate 
it were a fit epithet for but few of the 
mates of Valhalla. 
the Samfon or Herkules of the north. 
4+ The Niflhel of the text is probably 
in- 
For Starkader, indeed, 
ar 
erroneous reading forNitelheim, home ef mijis, 
swhich was the favourite epithet of the Geths 
for the nether world. - Does Vafthruni meas 
ject.to Hela? 
. by the nine nations, the nine regions fub- 
t°The giant Mimis, and the fpring which 
be has in cuftody, are mentianed in the 
eighth fable of the newer Edda+ to this 
fountain-head the words hod mimis feem 
toe 
allude. Grater tranflates—‘‘ Life and warmth 
fhail lie hidden in the flefh of the earth.” 
See Nordifcke Blumen, p. 141. 
§ The Goths make the fun feminine, and 
the moon mafcutine, This is natural in a 
cal 
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