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 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 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 flying, The shining serpent From the Nida-mountains In the deep.