Thor beheld the frightful scene.

From the giants’ dark abode,

Fill’d with mangled limbs and blood,

Every vital spark had fled:

All was silent! all was dead!

In vain all their courage the giants display;

With eyes closed in death, like mow’d rushes they lay:

Naught remain’d of their strength or their valour behind;

From their bodies hath fled the invincible mind.

As the lion, when his might