XIX.
Then said Gangleri: Why is there so much difference, that summer should
be hot, but winter cold? Hárr answered: A wise man would
not ask thus, seeing that all are able to tell this; but if thou alone art
become so slight of understanding as not to have heard it, then I will yet
permit that thou shouldst rather ask foolishly once, than that thou shouldst
be kept longer in ignorance of a thing which it is proper to know. He is called
Svásudr1 who is father of Summer; and he is of pleasant nature, so that
from his name whatsoever is pleasant is called 'sweet.' [33]
But the father of Winter is variously called Vindljóni2 or
Vindsvalr;3 he is the son of Vásadr;4 and these were kinsmen
grim and chilly-breasted, and Winter has their temper.
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