Valaskialf in the centre; left doth Freya’s dome appear.
But over Valaskialf he mark’d the awful tower immense,
The like of which was never seen o’er all the earth’s expanse;
’Twas like the serpent Jormundgard in all his colours bright,
When poised upon his tail he stands in perpendic’lar height.
Upon the buckler-cover’d roof two beasts Starkodder view’d;
A goat over the dome, a stag over the portal stood:
Heidruna doth all other goats in value far excel,
Since from her udder, ’stead of milk, flow streams of hydromel.
But from the antlers of the stag a rill with brilliant spray