Then spoke Gangleri: "This is important information that I have just heard. That is an amazingly large construction and skilfully made. How was the earth arranged?'
Then High replied: 'It is circular round the edge, and around it lies the deep sea, and along the shore of this sea they gave lands to live in to the races of giants. But on the earth on the inner side they made a fortification round the world against the hostility of giants, and for this fortification they used the giant Ymir's eyelashes, and they called the fortification Midgard. They also took his brains and threw them into the sky and made out of them the clouds, as it says here:
From Ymir's flesh was earth created, and from blood, sea; rocks of bones, trees of hair, and from his skull, the sky.
And from his eyelashes the joyous gods made Midgard for men's sons, and from his brains were those cruel clouds all created.'
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Then Gangleri replied: 'What did Bor's sons do then, if you believe that they are gods?'
High said: 'There is not just a little to be told about that. They took Ymir and transported him to the middle of Ginnungagap, and out of him made the earth, out of his blood the sea and the lakes. The earth was made of the flesh and the rocks of the bones, stone and scree they made out of the teeth and molars and of the bones that had been broken.'
Then spoke Just-as-high: 'Out of the blood that came from his wounds and was flowing unconfined, out of this they made the sea with which they encompassed and contained the earth, and they placed this sea in a circle round the outside of it, and it will seem an impossibility to most to get across it.'
Then spoke Third: 'They also took his skull and made out of it the sky and set it up over the earth with four points, and under each corner they set a dwarf. Their names are Austri, Vestri, Nordri, Sudri. Then they took molten particles and sparks that were flying uncontrolled and had shot out of the world of Muspell and set them in the middle of the firmament of the sky both above and below to illuminate heaven and earth. They fixed all the lights, some in the sky, some moved in a wandering course beneath the sky, but they appointed them positions and ordained their courses. Thus it is said in ancient sources that by means of them days were distinguished and also the count of years, as it says in Voluspa:
The sun did not know where her dwelling was. The moon did not know what power he had. The stars did not know where their places were.
That is what it was like above the earth before this took place.'
Then spoke Gangleri: 'How did generations grow from him, and how did it come about that other people came into being, or do you believe him to be a god whom you have just spoken of?'
Then High replied: 'Not at all do we acknowledge him to be a god. He was evil and all his descendants. We call them frost-giants. And it is said that when he slept, he sweated. Then there grew under his left arm a male and a female, and one of his legs begot a son with the other, and descendants came from them. These are frost-giants. The ancient frost-giant, him we call Ymir.'
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
Then spoke Third: 'But first there was the world in the southern region called Muspell. It is bright and hot. That area is flaming and burning and it is impassable for those that are foreigners there and are not native to it. There is one called Surt that is stationed there at the frontier to defend the land. He has a flaming sword and at the end of the world he will go and wage war and defeat all the gods and burn the whole world with fire. Thus it says in Voluspa:
Surt travels from the south with the stick-destroyer [fire]. Shines from his sword the sun of the gods of the slain. Rock cliffs crash and troll-wives are abroad, heroes tread the road of Hel and heaven splits.'