Saw a hall Far from the sun, On the strand of dead bodies, With doors toward the north. Venom drops Through the loopholes; Formed is that hall Of wreathed serpents. There saw she wade Through heavy streams, Perjurers And murderers And adulterers; There Nidhug sucked The bodies of the dead And the wolf tore them to pieces. Conceive ye this or not? Then comes the mighty one[94] To the great judgment; From heaven he comes, He who guides all things: Judgments he utters; Strifes he appeases, Laws he ordains To flourish forever. Or as it is stated in Hyndla’s lay, after she has described Heimdal, the sublime protector of the perishable world: Then comes another Yet more mighty, But him dare I not Venture to name; Few look further forward Than to the time When Odin goes To meet the wolf. And when the vale in Völuspá, beginning with the primeval time, has unveiled, in the most profound sentences, the whole history of the universe,—when she has gone through every period of its development down through Ragnarok and the Regeneration, the following is her last vision: _There_ comes the dark Dragon[95] flying, The shining serpent From the Nida-mountains In the deep. Over the plain it flies; Dead bodies Nidhug Drags in his whizzing plumage,— Now must Nidhug sink. Thus ends the vala’s prophecy (_völuspá_.) She has revealed the decrees of the Father of Nature; she has described the conflagration and renovation of the world, and now proclaims the fate of the good and of the evil.