From Henry Adams Bellows stanzas 3 and 4 of the Voluspa from The Poetic Edda
3. Of old was the age of when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
4. The Bur's sons lifted the level land,
Mithgarth the mighty there they made;
The sun from the south warmed the stones of the earth,
And green was the ground with growing leeks.
5. The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south
her right hand cast over heaven's rim;
No knowledge she had of where her home should be,
The moon knew not what might was his,
The stars knew not where their stations were.
3. Of old was the age of when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.
4. The Bur's sons lifted the level land,
Mithgarth the mighty there they made;
The sun from the south warmed the stones of the earth,
And green was the ground with growing leeks.
5. The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south
her right hand cast over heaven's rim;
No knowledge she had of where her home should be,
The moon knew not what might was his,
The stars knew not where their stations were.
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| Mithgarth(Midgard) |
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