The Sea-King A metrical romance, in six cantos. With notes, historical and illustrative. By J. Stanyan Bigg |
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Ragnar looked round him, and beheld(Strange sights!) the wondrous scenes of eld.
He saw the two eternal elements,
The vap'rous Niflheim, and the Muspiel fire,
And that strange drop, the primal cause of things,
That wondrous fount, whence life forever springs;
That had its being ere the Gods had birth,
Ere sun or moon was formed, or heaven or earth.—
He saw the ancient Ymer from whom sprang
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Ædumla too, whose offspring Bore, became
The father of the Gods, whose ancient name
Will never more be lost.—
He saw the world created, and the seas,
And other things which time has rendered mysteries.
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