CANTO XIII.
THE RAPE OF IDUNA.
Odin, with Hænir and with Asa-Lok,
Assuming human forms, once on a time
To view the earth a journey undertook.
Odin felt weary of his throne sublime
On Hlidskialf, and he fain would rove
Throughout the world, mankind himself to prove:
While through the forest dark he bends his way,
He gasps for breath, and feels himself but clay.
O’er mountains cover’d with eternal snow