Post by Mysti on Jul 8, 2007 8:04:34 GMT -5
Far Away & Long Ago
Once there was another Sun & another Moon; a different Sun & a different Moon from the ones we see now. Sol was the name of that Sun & Mani was the name of that Moon. But always behind Sol & Mani wolves went, a wolf behind each. The wolves caught on them at last & they devoured Sol & Mani. And then the world was in darkness & cold.
In those times the Gods lived, Odin & Thor, Hodur & Baldur, Tyr & Heimdall, Vidar & Vali, as well as Loki, the doer of good & the doer of evil. And the beautiful Goddesses were living then, Frigga, Freya, Nanna, Iduna, & Sif. But in the days when the Sun & Moon were destroyed the Gods were destroyed too-all the Gods except Baldur who had died before that time, Vidar & Vali, the sons of Odin, & Modi & Mangi, the sons of Thor.
At that time, too, there were men & women in the world. But before the Sun & the Moon were devoured & before the Gods were destroyed, terrible things happened in the world. Snow fell on the four corners of the earth & kept on falling for three seasons. Winds came & blew everything away. And the people of the world who had lived on in spite of the snow & the cold & the winds fought each other, brother killing brother, until all the people were destroyed.
Also there was another earth at that time, an earth green & beautiful. But the terrible winds that blew levelled down forests & hills & dwellings. Then fire came & burnt the earth. There was darkness, for the Sun & the Moon were devoured. The Gods had met with their doom. And the time in which all these things happened was called Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.
Then a new Sun & a new Moon appeared & went travelling through the heavens; they were more lovely than Sol & Mani, & no wolves followed behind them in chase. The earth became green & beautiful again, & in a deep forest that the fire had not burnt a woman & a man wakened up. They had been hidden there by Odin & left to sleep during Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.
Lif was the woman's name, & Lifthrasir was the man's. They moved through the world, & their children & their children's children made people for the new earth. And of the Gods were left Vidar & Vali, the sons of Odin, & Modi & Magni, the sons of Thor; on the new earth Vidar & Vali found tablets that the older Gods had written on & had left there for them, tablets telling of all that had happened before Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.
And the people who lived after Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, were not troubled, as the people in the older days were troubled, by the terrible beings who had brought destruction upon the world & upon men & women, & who from the beginning had waged war upon the Gods.
Derived from "Nordic Gods & Heroes" by Padraic Colum
Once there was another Sun & another Moon; a different Sun & a different Moon from the ones we see now. Sol was the name of that Sun & Mani was the name of that Moon. But always behind Sol & Mani wolves went, a wolf behind each. The wolves caught on them at last & they devoured Sol & Mani. And then the world was in darkness & cold.
In those times the Gods lived, Odin & Thor, Hodur & Baldur, Tyr & Heimdall, Vidar & Vali, as well as Loki, the doer of good & the doer of evil. And the beautiful Goddesses were living then, Frigga, Freya, Nanna, Iduna, & Sif. But in the days when the Sun & Moon were destroyed the Gods were destroyed too-all the Gods except Baldur who had died before that time, Vidar & Vali, the sons of Odin, & Modi & Mangi, the sons of Thor.
At that time, too, there were men & women in the world. But before the Sun & the Moon were devoured & before the Gods were destroyed, terrible things happened in the world. Snow fell on the four corners of the earth & kept on falling for three seasons. Winds came & blew everything away. And the people of the world who had lived on in spite of the snow & the cold & the winds fought each other, brother killing brother, until all the people were destroyed.
Also there was another earth at that time, an earth green & beautiful. But the terrible winds that blew levelled down forests & hills & dwellings. Then fire came & burnt the earth. There was darkness, for the Sun & the Moon were devoured. The Gods had met with their doom. And the time in which all these things happened was called Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.
Then a new Sun & a new Moon appeared & went travelling through the heavens; they were more lovely than Sol & Mani, & no wolves followed behind them in chase. The earth became green & beautiful again, & in a deep forest that the fire had not burnt a woman & a man wakened up. They had been hidden there by Odin & left to sleep during Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.
Lif was the woman's name, & Lifthrasir was the man's. They moved through the world, & their children & their children's children made people for the new earth. And of the Gods were left Vidar & Vali, the sons of Odin, & Modi & Magni, the sons of Thor; on the new earth Vidar & Vali found tablets that the older Gods had written on & had left there for them, tablets telling of all that had happened before Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.
And the people who lived after Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods, were not troubled, as the people in the older days were troubled, by the terrible beings who had brought destruction upon the world & upon men & women, & who from the beginning had waged war upon the Gods.
Derived from "Nordic Gods & Heroes" by Padraic Colum