Introductory Note
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Bellows, Henry Adams
The men who have fallen in fight.
9. Easy is it to know | for him who to Othin
Comes and beholds the hall;
Its rafters are spears, | with shields is it roofed,
On its benches are breastplates strewn.
10. Easy is it to know | for him who to Othin
Comes and beholds the hall;
There hangs a wolf | by the western door,
And o’er it an eagle hovers.
11. The sixth is Thrymheim, | where Thjazi dwelt,
The giant of marvelous might; [90]
Now Skathi abides, | the god’s fair bride,
In the home that her father had.
12. The seventh is Breithablik; | Baldr has there
For himself a dwelling set,
In the land I know | that lies so fair,
And from evil fate is free.
13. Himinbjorg is the eighth, | and Heimdall there
O’er men holds sway, it is said;
In his well-built house | does the warder of heaven
The good mead gladly drink.
14. The ninth is Folkvang, | where Freyja decrees [91]
Who shall have seats in the hall;
The half of the dead | each day does she choose,
And half does Othin have.
15. The tenth is Glitnir; | its pillars are gold,
And its roof with silver is set;
There most of his days | does Forseti dwell,
And sets all strife at end.
16. The eleventh is Noatun; | there has Njorth
For himself a dwelling set;
The sinless ruler | of men there sits
In his temple timbered high.
17. Filled with growing trees | and high-standing grass
Is Vithi, Vithar’s land; [92]
But there did the son | from his steed leap down,
When his father he fain would avenge.
18. In Eldhrimnir | Andhrimnir cooks
Sæhrimnir’s seething flesh,—
The best of food, | but few men know