Or the sky, thou giant sage?”

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Vafthruthnir spake:

[21]. “Out of Ymir’s flesh | was fashioned the earth,

And the mountains were made of his bones;

The sky from the frost-cold | giant’s skull,

And the ocean out of his blood.”

Othin spake:

[22]. “Next answer me well, | if thy wisdom avails,

And thou knowest it, Vafthruthnir, now: