Sighs from the rack and groans re-echo loud

The miseries of the earth: upon the bridge

Heimdaller perch’d blows fearfully his horn

To rouse all nature to th’ eternal strife;

While Jormundgardur lifts his head and hisses.

With vapours dark the rainbow, once so bright,

Becomes obscured: down ride the Asar: Bifrost

Breaks down with frightful crash: the sky sucks up

The vapour like a swamp: the heavens thus lose

Their brightest ornament; while Naglefare,