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A quotation from the Poetic Edda

The sun turns black,  
                    earth sinks in the sea,
The hot stars down  
                    from heaven are whirled;
Fierce grows the steam  
                    and the life-feeding flame,
Till fire leaps high  
                    about heaven itself.
 
[Sól tér sortna,
                    sígr fold í mar,
hverfa af himni
                    heiðar stjǫrnur;
geisar eimi
                    við aldnara,
leikr hár hiti
                    við himin sjálfan.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress], st. 57 (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80684/

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A quotation from the Poetic Edda

Brothers shall fight
          and fell each other,
And sisters’ sons
          shall kinship stain;
Hard is it on earth,
          with mighty whoredom;
Axe-time, sword-time,
          shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time,
          ere the world falls;
Nor ever shall
          each other spare.
          
[Brœðr munu berjask
          ok at bǫnum verða,
munu systrungar
          sifjum spilla;
hart er í heimi,
          hórdómr mikill;
skeggǫld, skálmǫld
          — skildir ru klofnir —
vindǫld, vargǫld,
          áðr verǫld steypisk;
mun engi maðr
          ǫðrum þyrma.]

Poetic Edda (800-1100) Old Norse anonymous collection of poems
Völuspá [Prophecy of the Völva; Prophecy of the Seeress] (AD 961) [tr. Bellows (1936); st. 45]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/edda-poetic/80217/

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