Othin spake:

[a]36]. “Ninth answer me well, | if wise thou art called,

If thou knowest it, Vafthruthnir, now:

Whence comes the wind | that fares o’er the waves

Yet never itself is seen?”

Vafthruthnir spake:

[37]. “In an eagle’s guise | at the end of heaven

Hræsvelg sits, they say;

And from his wings | does the wind come forth

To move o’er the world of men.”