"Brothers shall fight and fell each other,

And sisters' sons shall kinship stain;

Hard is it on earth, with mighty whoredom;

Ax-time, sword-time, shields are sundered,

Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls;

Nor ever shall men each other spare."

{based on the Poetic Edda, "Voluspa," 42 ff.(The verses are quoted from the translation by Bellows, op, cit., pp. 19-20, 24), and the Prose Edda, "Gylfaginning," LI(translation by Brodeur, op.cit., pp. 77-81). By permission of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, publishers.

Campbell: 1922, pp 375-376.