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 They fell each other, and fare from the fight All healed full soon to sit."

Othin spake: "Twelfth answer me now how all thou knowest Of the fate that is fixed for the gods; Of the runes of the gods  and the giants' race The truth indeed dost thou tell, (And wide is thy wisdom, giant!)"

Vafthruthnir spake: "Of the runes of the gods and the giants' race The truth indeed can I tell, (For to every world have I won;) To nine worlds came I,  to Niflhel beneath, The home where dead men dwell."

Othin spake: "Much have I fared, much have I found, Much have I got of the gods: What shall live of mankind  when at last there comes The mighty winter to men?"

Vafthruthnir spake: "In Hoddmimir's wood shall hide themselves Lif and Lifthrasir then;