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FRITHIOF’S SAGA 107
Next in worth to the sword was an arm-ring, far and
wide famous,
Forged by the Vulcan of northern story, the halting
Valun-der;
Three marks was it in weight, of gold unmingled
y-fash-ioned;
On it the heavens were wrought, and the towers of the
twelve immortals
(Figuring changing months, the Sun’s dwellings called by
the minstrels):
Alfheim there might be seen, Frey’s tower, and the sun in
new vigor,
As he begin neth to climb the heights of the heaven at
Yule-tide.
Soquaback too was there; in its hall sat Odin by Saga,
Quaffing the wine from a golden shell,—that shell is the
ocean,
Colored with gold from the glow of the morn; and Saga
is springtime
Writ upon grassy fields with flowers instead of with letters.
Balder appeared there too, as the sun of midsummer,
glorious,
Shedding abundance around, and shining, the image of
goodness.
Beaming with light is Goodness,but all that is Evil is gloomy.
Weary the sun groweth, mounting so high, and so
grow-eth Goodness
Faint on the dizzy height; so, sighing, sink they together
Down to the realms of Hela, the land of shadows and
darkness.
Glitner was pictured thereon, the palace of peace, where
Forsete,
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