Gangleri spoke: 'What were things like before generations came to be and the human race was multiplied?'
Then spoke High: "These rivers, which are called Elivagar, when they had got so far from their source that the poisonous flow that accompanied them began to go hard like the clinker that comes from a furnace, it turned to ice; and when this ice came to a halt and stopped flowing, the vapour that was rising from the poison froze on the top in the same direction and turned to rime, and this rime increased layer upon layer right across Ginnungagap.'
Then spoke Just-as-high: ‘Ginnungagap, the part that faces in a northerly direction, was filled with the weight and heaviness of ice and rime and there was vapour and a blowing inwards from it. But the southerly part of Ginnungagap cleared up in the face of the sparks and molten particles that came flying out of the world of Muspell.'
Then spoke Third: 'Just as from Niflheim there arose coldness and all things grim, so what was facing close to Muspell was hot and bright, but Ginnungagap was as mild as a windless sky. And when the rime and the blowing of the warmth met so that it thawed and dripped, there was a quickening from these flowing drops due to the power of the source of the heat, and it became the form of a man, and he was given the name Ymir. But the frost-giants call him Aurgelmir, and from him are descended the generations of frost-giants, as it says in the Shorter Voluspa:
All sibyls are from Vidolf, all wizards from Vilmeid, all sorcerers from Svarthofdi, all giants from Ymir come.
And here it is told by the giant Vafthrudnir
where Aurgelmir came from, together with the sons of giants, first, that wise giant:
"When from Elivagar shot poison drops and grew until from them came a giant in whom our ancestries all converge: thus ever too terrible is all this."'
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