The mountains a wide yawning entrance display!

But only half open the portal was found;

And a flame often flash’d through the darkness profound.

Black as jet, but streak’d with flame,

Thrymur to the portal came:

There the giant proud and strong

Tower’d amidst his vassal throng!

On his brows a diadem

Deck’d with many a brilliant gem.

Now he greets, with conscious pride,