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: