Whence came the moon, | o’er the world of men
That fares, and the flaming sun?”
Vafthruthnir spake:
[23]. “Mundilferi is he | who begat the moon,
And fathered the flaming sun;
The round of heaven | each day they run,
To tell the time for men.”
Othin spake:
[a]24]. “Third answer me well, | if wise thou art called,
If thou knowest it, Vafthruthnir, now: