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Poetic Edda

  Thor spake:
13. "Answer me, Alvis!  thou knowest all,
 Dwarf, of the doom of men:
What call they the moon,  that men behold,
 In each and every world?"

  Alvis spake:
14.[1] "'Moon' with men, 'Flame'  the gods among,
 'The Wheel' in the house of hell;
'The Goer' the giants,  'The Gleamer' the dwarfs.
 The elves 'The Teller of Time.'"

  Thor spake:
15. "Answer me, Alvis!  thou knowest all,
 Dwarf, of the doom of men:
What call they the sun,  that all men see,
 In each and every world?"

  Alvis spake:
16.[2] "Men call it 'Sun,'  gods 'Orb of the Sun,'
 'The Deceiver of Dvalin' the dwarfs;
The giants 'The Ever-Bright,'  elves 'Fair Wheel,'
 'All-Glowing' the sons of the gods."

  1. ↑ Flame: a doubtful word; Vigfusson suggests that it properly means a "mock sun." Wheel: the manuscript adds the adjective "whirling," to the destruction of the metre; cf. Hovamol, 84, 3.
  2. ↑ Deceiver of Dvalin: Dvalin was one of the foremost dwarfs; cf. Voluspo, 14, Fafnismol, 13, and Hovamol, 144. The

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