CHAP.
IV.

A golden palace named Sindra;
But another exists in Okolni.
The ale cellars of the Jotun
Which is called Brimir.

She saw a palace stand far from the sun

In Nastrondum.

It looks at the doors of the north.

The building is twisted from the spines of serpents :

Poisoned torrents

Flow thro' its windows.

There she saw amid the dreadful streams

The perjured and the murderers:

And those who pull the ears

Of another's wife.

Their Nidhoggur

Tore the flesh from their corpses.

The fierce Wolf devoured the men.

Know you more? It is this.

There sat an old man

Towards the east in a wood of iron.
Where he nourished the sons of Fenris.
Every one of these grew prodigious;

A giant form;

The persecutor of the moon.

He was saturated

With the lives of dying men.

He sprinkled the host of the Deities with blood.
He darken'd the light of the sun in the summer.
All the winds were malignant.

Know you more? It is this.

He sat on a mound, and struck the harp.

Gygas the herdsman.

The glad Egder (the eagle)

Sang before him on the boughs of the tree,

The purple cock surnamed Fialer.

The golden-haired bird

Sang with the Asæ.

He roused the heroes with Herfadur.
But another crowed below the earth,

The yellow cock in the palace of Hela.

Garmur barked horribly

Before the cave of Gnipa.
The chains will be broken:

Freco will rush out,

Wise, she knows many things.
But I see beyond,

From the twilight of the Deities,

The fierce Sigtiva.

Brethren will fight and slay each other; Kindred will spurn their consanguinity: Hard will be the world:

Many the adulteries.

A bearded age: an age of swords:

Shields will be cloven.

An age of winds; an age of wolves.

Till the world shall perish

There will not be one that will spare another.

The sons of Mimur will sport;
But the bosom of the earth will burn;
Hear the sound of the Mystic horn,
Heimdallur will blow on high
The elevated horn.

Odin will speak by the head of Mimer.

The ancient tree will sound ominously.
The Jotun will be dissolved.

The ash Yggdrasil erected
Will become terrible.

Garmur will bark

Before Gniper's cave.

The chains will be shattered:
And Freco will run forth.

Hrymer will drive his car from the east.
Jornumgandus will revolve round
With the rage of the Jotun (giants),
The serpent will move the seas;
But the eagle flies

Through the seas of the people:
And Lok will hold his club.

All the sons of Fiflo lead Freco.
The brother of Bilvifs accompanies them.

What is there among the Asæ?
What among the Elfi?

All the house of the Jotun trembles:

The Dvergi (the dwarfs) groan

Before the doors of the rocks:

Their stony asylum.

Know you more? What is it?

Surtur comes from the south

With Swigalesi

The sword of Valtivi radiates like the sun :

The stony rocks glide away:

The Deities are enraged:

СНАР.
IV.

Then Heinir shares the power of choosing Vidar,

And the sons of the two brothers

Inhabit the vast mansion of the winds.

Do you know more?

A hall stands brighter than the sun; Covered with gold in Gimle.

There virtuous people will dwell:

And for ages will enjoy every good.

There will come the obscene dragon flying,

The serpent from Nidar-fiolli.

He carries the corpses in his wings:

He flies over the ground:

The infernal serpent, Nidhoggur:

Now the earth gapes for him.

СНАР.
IV.

BOOK III.

BOOK

III.

The Arrival of HENGIST.

CHAP. I.

His Transactions and Wars with the BRITONS, and final Settlement in KENT.

HITHERTO England had been inhabited by branches
of the Kimmerian and Keltic races, apparently visited
by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, and afterwards
occupied by the Roman military and colonists. From
these successive populations, it had obtained all the
benefits which each could impart. But in the fifth
century the period had arrived when both England
and the south of Europe were to be possessed and
commanded by a new description of people, who had
been gradually formed amid the wars and vicissitudes
of the Germanic continent; and to be led to manners,
laws, and institutions peculiarly, their own, and
adapted, as the great result has shown, to produce
national and social improvements superior to those
which either Greece or Rome had attained.
Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain must therefore not
be contemplated as a barbarisation of the country.
Our Saxon ancestors brought with them a superior
domestic and moral character, and the rudiments of
new political, juridical, and intellectual blessings.
An interval of slaughter and desolation unavoidably
occurred before they established themselves and their
new systems in the island. But when they had com-
pleted their conquest, they laid the foundations of
that national constitution, of that internal polity, of
those peculiar customs, of that female modesty, and

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