Othin spake:
46. "Much have I fared, | much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
Whence comes the sun | to the smooth sky back,
When Fenrir has snatched it forth?"
Vafthruthnir spake:
47. "A daughter bright | Alfrothul bears
Ere Fenrir snatches her forth;
Her mother's paths | shall the maiden tread
When the gods to death have gone."
Othin spake:
48. "Much have I fared, | much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What maidens are they, | so wise of mind.
That forth o'er the sea shall fare?"
Vafthruthnir spake:
49. "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. "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?"
[46. Fenrir: there appears to be a confusion between the wolf Fenrir (cf. Voluspo, 39 and note) and his son, the wolf Skoll, who steals the
sun (cf. Voluspo, 40 and note).
47. Snorri quotes this stanza. Alfrothul ("the Elf-Beam") the sun.
49. 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, how ever, are kindly to men.
50. Surt: cf. Voluspo, 52 and note.]
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Óðinn kvað:
46. "Fjölð ek fór, fjölð ek freistaðak,
fjölð ek of reynda regin:
Hvaðan kemr sól á inn slétta himin,
er þessa hefr fenrir farit?"
Vafþrúðnir kvað:
47. "Eina dóttur berr alfröðull,
áðr hana fenrir fari;
sú skal ríða, þá er regin deyja,
móður brautir, mær."
Óðinn kvað:
48. "Fjölð ek fór, fjölð ek freistaðak,
fjölð ek of reynda regin:
Hverjar ro þær meyjar, er líða mar yfir,
fróðgeðjaðar fara?"
Vafþrúðnir kvað:
49. "Þríar þjóðár falla þorp yfir
meyja Mögþrasis;
hamingjur einar þær er í heimi eru,
þó þær með jötnum alask."
Óðinn kvað:
50. "Fjölð ek fór, fjölð ek freistaðak,
fjölð ek of reynda regin:
Hverir ráða æsir eignum goða,
þá er sloknar Surta logi?"
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