16. "Together they sleep not, | for so was it fixed
When the guard to them was given;
One sleeps by night, | the next by day,
So no man may enter ever."

Svipdag spake:

17. "Now answer me, Fjolsvith, | the question I ask,
For now the truth would I know:
Is there no meat | that men may give them,
And leap within while they eat?"

Fjolsvith spake:

18. "Two wing-joints there be | in Vithofnir's body,
If now the truth thou wouldst know;
That alone is the meat | that men may give them,
And leap within while they eat."

Svipdag spake:

19. "Now answer me, Fjolsvith, | the question I ask,
For now the truth would I know:
What call they the tree | that casts abroad
Its limbs o'er every land?"

Fjolsvith spake:

20. "Mimameith its name, | and no man knows
What root beneath it runs;
And few can guess | what shall fell the tree,
For fire nor iron shall fell it."

[20. Mimameith ("Mimir's Tree"): the ash Yggdrasil, that overshadows the whole world. The well of Mimir was situated at its base; Cf. Voluspo, 27-29.]

16. "Missvefni mikit var þeim mjök of lagit, síðan þeim var varzla vituð; annarr of nætr sefr, en annarr of daga, ok kemsk þá vætr, ef þá kom."

Vindkaldr kvað:

17. "Segðu mér þat, Fjölsviðr, er ek þik fregna mun ok ek vilja vita, hvárt sé matar nökkut, þat er menn hafi, ok hlaupi inn, meðan þeir eta."

Fjölsviðr kvað:

18. "Vegnbráðir tvær liggja í Viðópnis liðum, ef þú vilt þat vita, þat eitt er svá matar, at þeim menn of gefi, ok hlaupi inn, meðan þeir eta."

Vindkaldr kvað:

19. "Segðu mér þat, Fjölsviðr, er ek þik fregna mun ok ek vilja vita: Hvat þat barr heitir, er breiðask um lönd öll limar?"

Fjölsviðr kvað:

20. "Mímameiðr hann heitir, en þat manngi veit, af hverjum rótum renn; við þat hann fellr, er fæstan varir, flær-at hann eld né járn."