Author: Elder Edda
Cited by
- Robert Silverberg (1)
- IN: At Winter's End (1988) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: An axe-age, a sword-age,
shields shall be sundered;
A wind-age, a wolf-age,
ere the world falls.
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.
FROM: Poetic Edda, (None), Poem, Iceland