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 Fire and vapor Rage toward heaven; High flames Involve the skies.

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

These strophes are taken from Völuspá (the prophecy of the vala); and besides these we also have a few strophes of the lay of Vafthrudner, in the Elder Edda, referring to the final conflict:

VAFTHRUDNER:

Tell me, Gagnraad, Since on the floor thou wilt Prove thy proficiency, How that plain is called, Where in fight shall meet Surt and the gentle gods?

GAGNRAAD (ODIN):

Vigrid the plain is called, Where in fight shall meet Surt and the gentle gods; A hundred rasts it is On every side. That plain is to them decreed.

And in the second part of this same poem, in which Odin asks and Vafthrudner answers: