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LIII.
Then spake Gangleri: Shall any of the gods live [83] then, or
shall there be then any earth or heaven? Hárr answered: In
that time the earth shall emerge out of the sea, and shall then be green and
fair; then shall the fruits of it be brought forth unsown. Vídarr and
Váli shall be living, inasmuch as neither sea nor the fire of Surtr shall
have harmed them; and they shall dwell at Ida-Plain, where Ásgard was
before. And then the sons of Thor, Módi and Magni, shall come there, and
they shall have Mjöllnir there. After that Baldr shall come thither, and
Hödr, from Hel; then all shall sit down together and hold speech with one
another, and call to mind their secret wisdom, and speak of those happenings
which have been before: of the Midgard Serpent and of Fenris-Wolf. Then they
shall find in the grass those golden chess-pieces which the Æsir had
had; thus is it said:
the deities' shrines shall dwell Vídarr and Váli,
When the Fire of Surtr is slackened;
and Magni shall have Mjöllnir
At the ceasing of Thor's strife.
In the place called Hoddmímir's Holt there shall lie hidden during the
Fire of Surtr two of mankind, who are called thus: Líf and Lífthrasir,
and for food they shall have the morning-dews. From these folk shall come so
numerous an offspring that all the world shall be peopled, even as is said
here:
Líf and Lífthrasir, these
shall lurk hidden
In the Holt of Hoddmímir;
The morning dews their
meat shall be;
Thence are gendered the generations. [84]
And it may seem wonderful to thee, that the sun shall have borne a daughter not
less fair than herself; and the daughter shall then tread in the steps of her
mother, as is said here:
The Elfin-beam shall
bear a daughter,
Ere Fenris drags her forth;
That maid shall go, when the
great gods die,
To ride her mother's road.
But now, if thou art able to ask yet further, then indeed I know not whence
answer shall come to thee, for I never heard any man tell forth at greater
length the course of the world; and now avail thyself of that which thou hast
heard.
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