A tale well worth to hear, In mystic Runics writ; Come, lend a listening ear To theme for Sages fit: Of many a legend old, Told down from sire to sire, The pregnant sense t' unfold I strike my golden lyre.
Of th' Aser and the Giants, Their long and fatal strife, Of true-love's firm reliance, Of Loke, with treasons rife, Of Odin and Valhalla I sing-of Thor the strong: No subject light nor shallow,