Ere Fenrir snatches her forth;

Her mother’s paths | shall the maiden tread

When the gods to death have gone.”

Othin spake:

[a]48]. “Much have I fared, | much have I found,

Much have I got of the gods:

What maidens are they, | so wise of mind,

That forth o’er the sea shall fare?”

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Vafthruthnir spake: