lángtum heldr
at Zíons hæð
ok Sílóa brunni,
sem framstreymdi
hjá Frétt guðligri!
We can barely recognize the “heavenly Muse”—“Mentamothir hymneska”—Mother of hymns!—
——“that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, did’st inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed,
In the beginning, how Heaven and Earth