Vafthruthnir spake:
27. "Vindsval he was | who was winter's father,
And Svosuth summer begat;"

Othin spake:
28. "Fifth answer me well, | if wise thou art called,
If thou knowest it, Vafthruthnir, now:
What giant first | was fashioned of old,
And the eldest of Ymir's kin?"

Vafthruthnir spake:
29. "Winters unmeasured | ere earth was made
Was the birth of Bergelmir;
Thruthgelmir's son | was the giant strong,
And Aurgelmir's grandson of old."

Othin spake:
30. "Sixth answer me well, | if wise thou art called,
If thou knowest it, Vafthruthnir, now:
Whence did Aurgelmir come | with the giants' kin,
Long since, thou giant sage?"

[27. Neither the Regius nor the Arnamagnæan Codex indicates a lacuna. Most editors have filled out the stanza with two lines from late paper manuscripts: "And both of these shall ever be, / Till the gods to destruction go." Bugge ingeniously paraphrases Snorri's prose: "Vindsval's father was Vosuth called, / And rough is all his race." Vindsval: "the Wind-Cold," also called Vindljoni, "the Wind-Man." Svosuth: "the Gentle."

28. Ymir's kin: the giants.

29. Bergelmir: when the gods slew Ymir in order to make the world out of his body, so much blood flowed from him that all the frost-giants were drowned except Bergelmir and his wife, who escaped in a boat; cf. stanza 35. Of Thruthgelmir ("the Mightily Burning") we know nothing, but Aurgelmir was the frost-giants' name for Ymir himself. Thus Ymir was the first of the giants, and so Othin's question is answered.]

Vafþrúðnir kvað:
27. "Vindsvalr heitir, hann er Vetrar faðir,
en Svásuðr sumars."

Óðinn kvað:
28. "Seg þú þat it fimmta,
alls þik fróðan kveða,
ok þú, Vafþrúðnir, vitir,
hverr ása ellztr eða Ymis niðja
yrði í árdaga."

Vafþrúðnir kvað:
29. "Örófi vetra áðr væri jörð of sköpuð,
þá var Bergelmir borinn, Þrúðgelmir
var þess faðir, en Aurgelmir afi."

Óðinn kvað:
30. "Seg þú þat it sétta,
alls þik svinnan kveða, ok þú, Vafþrúðnir, vitir,
hvaðan Aurgelmir kom með jötna sonum
fyrst, inn fróði jötunn."