Resting on azure columns, stands a palace fair and light:
High beech-trees of the liveliest green encircle this domain:
There, to Starkodder Heimdal said, doth lovely Freya reign!
Northward appears a forest black; on a steep granite rock
Stands a strong castle, with deep ditch, which any siege could mock;
Its roof was tiled with copper shields; Trudvang the name it bore:
There, Heimdal to Starkodder said, dwells the all-powerful Thor!
The sun now sank beneath the wave, and clear and round the moon
On Valaskialf, on Folkvang bright, on massive Trudvang shone!
Athwart the clouds Starkodder saw far off a dazzling light: