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 What shall bring the doom of death to Othin, When the gods to destruction go?"

Vafthruthnir spake: "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: "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: "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."