Did not exist, presumptuous Thor!
“Let me,” quoth Thor, “this history
Expound and all its mystery!
“The wond’rous facts I now relate.
Than I none better knows:
Alfader gave the word; and strait
The cow Audumbla rose!
She lick’d the frost from the hard mass;
Thence sprang the noble Asar race
From solid strength descended,