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 It feeds on the bodies Of men, when they die: The seats of the gods It stains with red blood: The sunshine blackens In the summers thereafter And the weather grows bad— Know ye now more or not?

The hag's watcher, The glad Edger, Sat on the hill-top And played his harp; Near him crowed In the bird-wood A fair-red cock Which Fjalar hight.

Among the gods crowed The gold-combed cock, He who wakes in Valhal The hosts of heroes; Beneath the earth Crows another, The root-red cock, In the halls of Hel.

Loud barks Garm At Gnipa-cave; The fetters are severed, The wolf is set free,— Vale knows the future. More does she see Of the victorious gods Terrible fall.

The wolf referred to in the first strophe is Maanegarm (the moon-devourer), of whom we have made notice before. The hag in the Ironwood is Angerboda (anguish-boding), with whom Loke begat children. Evil is being developed. The gods become through Loke