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Poetic Edda

  Vafthruthnir spake:
49.[1] "O'er Mogthrasir's hill  shall the maidens pass,
 And three are their throngs that come;
They all shall protect  the dwellers on earth,
 Though they come of the giants' kin."

  Othin spake:
50.[2] "Much have I fared,  much have I found,
 Much have I got of the gods:
Who then shall rule  the realm of the gods,
 When the fires of Surt have sunk?"

  Vafthruthnir spake:
51.[3] "In the gods' home Vithar  and Vali shall dwell,
 When the fires of Surt have sunk;
Mothi and Magni  shall Mjollnir have
 When Vingnir falls in fight."

  Othin spake:

52. "Much have I fared,  much have I found,
 Much have I got of the gods:

  1. ↑ Mogthrasir ("Desiring Sons"): not mentioned elsewhere in the Eddic poems, or by Snorri. The maidens: apparently Norns, like the "giant-maids" in Voluspo, 8. These Norns, however, are kindly to men.
  2. ↑ Surt: cf. Voluspo, 52 and note.
  3. ↑ Vithar: a son of Othin, who slays the wolf Fenrir; cf. Voluspo, 54 and note. Vali: the son whom Othin begot to avenge Baldr's death; cf. Voluspo, 33 and note. Mothi ("Wrath") and Magni ("Might"): the sons of the god Thor, who after his death inherit his famous hammer, Mjollnir. Concerning this hammer cf. especially Thrymskvitha, passim. Vingnir ("the

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