“Mother, a dreadful way is this thou showest;
No journey for a sightless god to go.”
And she replied:
“… Thyself thou shalt not go, my son;
But he whom first thou meetest when thou com’st
To Asgard and declar’st this hidden way,
Shall go; and I will be his guide unseen.”
Meantime the Asa folk had felled trees and had carried to the seashore outside the walls of Asgard a great pile of fuel, which they laid upon the deck of Balder’s great ship, Ringhorn, as it lay stranded high upon the beach.
“Seventy ells and four extended