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Völuspá
The Vala's Prophecy
1. For silence I pray all
sacred children,
great and small,
sons of Heimdall1
they will that I Valfather's
deeds recount,
men's ancient saws,
those that I best remember.
2. The Jötuns I remember
early born,
those who me of old
have reared.
I nine worlds remember,
nine trees,
the great central tree,
beneath the earth.
3. There was in times of old,
where Ymir dwelt,
nor sand nor sea,
nor gelid waves;
earth existed not,
nor heaven above,
'twas a chaotic chasm,
and grass nowhere.
4. Before Bur's sons
raised up heaven's vault,
they who the noble
mid-earth shaped.
The sun shone from the south
over the structure's rocks:
then was the earth begrown
with herbage green.
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