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What shall bring the doom of death to Othin,
When the gods to destruction go?"
Vafthruthnir spake:
53."The wolf shall fell the father of men,
And this shall Vithar avenge;
The terrible jaws shall he tear apart,
And so the wolf shall he slay."
Othin spake:
54."Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got from the gods:
What spake Othin himself in the ears of his son,
Ere in the bale-fire he burned?"
Vafthruthnir spake:
55."No man can tell what in olden time
Thou spak'st in the ears of thy son;
With fated mouth the fall of the gods
And mine olden tales have I told;
With Othin in knowledge now have I striven,
And ever the wiser thou art."
