What root beneath it runs;

And few can guess | what shall fell the tree,

For fire nor iron shall fell it.”

Svipdag spake:

[a]31]. “Now answer me, Fjolsvith, | the question I ask,

For now the truth would I know: [[243]]

What grows from the seed | of the tree so great,

That fire nor iron shall fell?”

Fjolsvith spake:

[32]. “Women, sick | with child, shall seek