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: