After a lengthy and interesting dialog, Odin proposes a question which the giant can not answer, so Vafthruðnis replies:—
“None know since time its race hath run
What Odin whispered to his son.
The fate of gods and mystic lore
With thee no longer I explore.
Thou, by the hand of knowledge led,
The fatal stroke of death has fled;
And since thy wisdom I have tried,
Hear Vafthruðnis thus decide,—
‘In mysteries of every kind,