What various names (’twas no easy task)
To the sun and moon and stars were given:
To earth and water, to fire and air,
To plants and trees, to the wind and rain:
And what the terms expressive were,
Which all their properties explain.
But Skirnir’s answers never fail,
And all his ready wit display:
“The earth is call’d by the Asar, vale:
By the Alfer, green: by the Vaner, way: