MADUMEELI

ANDVARA-GULL
(Andvari’s Gold)

14 ‘Whom Ódin chooseth
   ends not untimely,
   though ways of men
   he walk briefly.
   In wide Valhöll
   he may wait feasting -
   it is to ages after
   that Ódin looks.’

ANDVARA-GULL
(Andvari’s Gold)

1 Of old was an age
  When Ódin walked
  by wide waters
  in the world’s beginning;
  lightfooted Loki
  at his left was running,
  at his right Hœnir
  roamed beside him.

UPPHAF
(Beginning)

8 In forge’s fire
  of flaming wrath
  was heaviest hammer
  hewn and wielded.
  Thunder and lightning
  Thór the mighty
  flung among them,
  felled and sundered.

UPPHAF
(Beginning)

5 Dread shapes arose
  from the dim spaces
  over sheer mountains
  by the Shoreless Sea,
  friends of darkness,
  foes immortal,
  old, unbegotten,
  out of ancient void.

UPPHAF
(Beginning)

1 Of old was an age
  when was emptiness,
  there was sand nor sea
  nor surging waves;
  unwrought was Earth,
  unroofed was Heaven-
  an abyss yawning,
  and no blade of grass.

http://nonsequently.tumblr.com/ - who has very good taste - gave me J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. I’m going to post a few stanzas I found most pleasing. I highly recommend this book!