Now Garm barks loud Before Gnipa-cave; The fetters will break, And the wolf will run. Then comes the great Son of Sigfödr (father of victory) Vidar to slay, The beast of carrion.[64] With his hand he lets His sword pierce The heart of the Jötun’s son,[65] Then his father (Odin) is avenged.[66] Then comes the famous Son of Hlodyn (Thor); Odin’s son Goes to fight the serpent; Midgard’s defender (Thor) Slays him in wrath; All men will Leave their homesteads; The son of Fjörgyn (Thor), Walks nine paces Reeling from the serpent That shuns not heinous deeds. The sun blackens,[67] The earth sinks into the sea; The bright stars Vanish from heaven; The life-feeder (fire) And the vapour rage; The high heat rises Towards heaven itself. Now Garm barks loud[68] Before Gnipa-cave; The fetters will break, And the wolf will run. (Völuspa.) After the destruction of the world, a new one will arise. She[69] beholds rising up Another time An earth out of the sea, An evergreen one. The waterfalls rush; Above an eagle flies Which on the mountains Catches fish. The Asar meet On the Idavöll (plain) And talk about The mighty earth-serpent And there speak of The great events And of the old runes Of Fimbultyr. CHAPTER V. MYTHOLOGY AND COSMOGONY—_continued_. Norse Cosmogony—Midgard, Asgard, and Mannheim—The Asar and Vanir—Thor and Tyr—The Goddesses—The Apples of Youth. Where the mythical Odin ends in the Völuspa, if there is any ending to him, is impossible to tell; it appears that he came and built an earthly _Midgard_,[70] according to the writer of the Later Edda who gives the tradition and belief of the people in his day.