And adulterers;
There Nidhug sucked
The bodies of the dead
And the wolf tore them to pieces.
Conceive ye this or not?
Then comes the mighty one[1]
To the great judgment;
From heaven he comes,
He who guides all things:
Judgments he utters;
Strifes he appeases,
Laws he ordains
To flourish forever.
Or as it is stated in Hyndla's lay, after she has described Heimdal, the sublime protector of the perishable world:
Then comes another
Yet more mighty,
But him dare I not
Venture to name;
Few look further forward
Than to the time
When Odin goes
To meet the wolf.
And when the vale in Völuspá, beginning with the primeval time, has unveiled, in the most profound sentences, the whole history of the universe,—when she has gone through every period of its development down through Ragnarok and the Regeneration, the following is her last vision:
There comes the dark
Dragon[2] flying,
The shining serpent
From the Nida-mountains
In the deep.
