THE FIRST NORN
What light glimmers there?
THE SECOND NORN
Is it already dawn?
THE THIRD NORN
Loge's host
Glows in flame around the rock.
It is night.
Why spin we not, singing the while?
THE SECOND NORN [To the first.
Where for our spinning and singing
Wilt thou fasten the rope?
THE FIRST NORN
[While she loosens a golden rope from herself and ties one end of it to a branch of the pine-tree.