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The Vala’s Prophecy
Источник: Norse Mythology; or, The Religion of our Forefethers, containing all the Myths of the Eddas, systematized and interpreted. Rasmus Anderson. Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company. London. Trübner & Co. 1875.
Give ear
All ye divine races,
Great and small,
Sons of Heimdal!
I am about to relate
The wonderful works of Valfather,
The oldest sayings of men,
The first I remember.[1]
It was Time's morning
When Ymer lived:
There was no sand, no sea,
Ko cooling billows;
Earth there was none,
No lofty heaven,
Only Ginungagap,
But no grass.
…There was nowhere grass
Until Bor's sons
The expanse did raise,
By whom the great
Midgard was made.
From the south the sun
Shone on the walls;
Then did the earth
green herbs produce.
The moon went ahead
The sun followed,
His right hand held
The steeds of heaven.
The sun knew not
His proper sphere;
The stars knew not
Their proper place;
The moon knew not
Where her position was.
Then went the powers all
To their judgment seats,
The all-holy gods,
And thereon held council:
To night and to the waning moon
Gave names;
Morn they named
And mid-day,
Afternoon and eve,
Whereby to reckon years.
The Asas met
On Ida's plains;
They altars raised
And temples built;
Furnaces they established,
Precious things forged.
Their strength they tried
In many ways
When making tongs
And forming tools.
On the green they played
In joyful mood,
Nor knew at all
The want of gold,
Until there came
Three giant maids
Exceeding strong
From Jotunheim.
On the green they played
In joyful mood,
Nor knew at all
The want of gold,
Until there came
Three giant maids
Exceeding strong
From Jotunheim.
With golden tablets in the garden
Glad they played,
Nor was there to the valiant gods
Want of gold.
Then all the powers
Went to the throne,
The holy gods,
And held consult
Who should of dwarfs
The race then fashion
From the livid bones
And blood of the giant.
Modsogner, chief
Of the dwarfish race,
And Durin, too,
Were then created;
And like to men
Dwarfs in the earth
Were formed in numbers
As Durin ordered.[2]
And then there came
Out of the ranks,
Powerful and fair,
Three asas home,
And found on shore,
In helpless plight,
Ask and Embla[3]
Without their fate.
They had not yet
Spirit or mind,
Blood or beauty
Or lovely hue.
Odin gave spirit,
Hœner gave mind,
Loder gave blood
And lovely hue.
An Ash know I standing
Named Ygdrasil
A stately tree sprinked
With water, the purest;
Thence come the dewdrops
That fall in the dales;
Ever blooming it stands
O’er Urdar fountain.[4]
Then went the rulers there,
All gods most holy,
To their Beats aloft,
And counsel together took;
Who all the winsome air
With guile had blended,
Or to the giant's race
Oder's maiden given.[5]
Then Thor, who was there,
Arose in wrathful mood,
For seldom sits he still
When such things he hears.
Annulled were now all oaths,
And words of promise fair.
And faith not long before
In council plighted.[6]
{Valkyries she saw
That much had traveled;
Ready they were
To Godthjod[7] to ride.
Skald held the child,
Skogul followed
Hild with Gondul
And Geirskogul.
Now have I named
The valkyries all.
Ready were Herjan's maids
Over the earth to ride.}[8]
I saw the concealed
Fate of Balder,
The blood-stained god,
The son of Odin.
In the fields
There stood grown up,
Slender and passing fair,
The mistletoe.
From that shrub was made,
As to me it seemed,
A deadly noxious dart;
Hoder shot it forth;
Rind a son shall bear
In the wintry halls,
He shall slay Odin's son
When one night old.
He a hand will not wash,
Nor his hair comb,
Ere he to the pile has borne
Balder's adversary.
But Frigg bewailed
In Fensal
Valhal's calamity.
Understand ye yet, or what?[9]
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?
There saw she wade
In the heavy streams
Men – foul murderers,
And perjurers,
And them who other's wives
Seduce to sin.[10]
East of Midgard in the Ironwood
The old hag[11] sat,
Fenrer's terrible
Race she fostered.
One[12] of them
Shall at last
In the guise of a troll
Devour the moon.
It feeds on the bodies
Of men, when they die:
The seats of the gods
It stains with red blood:
The sunshine blackens
In the summers thereafter
And the weather grows bad –
Know ye now more or not?
The hag's watcher,
The glad Edger,
Sat on the hill-top
And played his harp;
Near him crowed
In the bird-wood
A fair-red cock
Which Fjalar hight.
Among the gods crowed
The gold-combed cock,
He who wakes in Valhal
The hosts of heroes;
Beneath the earth
Crows another,
The root-red cock,
In the halls of Hel.
Loud barks Garm
At Gnipa-cave;
The fetters are severed,
The wolf is set free, –
Vala knows the future.
More does she see
Of the victorious gods
Terrible fall.
Brothers slay brothers;
Sisters' children
Shed each other's blood.
Hard is the world;
Sensual sin grows huge.
There are sword-ages, ax-ages;
Shields are cleft in twain;
Storm-ages, murder-ages;
Till the world falls dead,
And men no longer spare
Or pity one another.
Mimer's sons play;
To battle the gods are called
By the ancient
Gjallar-horn.
Loud blows Heimdal,
His sound is in the air;
Odin talks
With the head of Mimer.
Quivers then Ygdrasil,
The strong-rooted ash;
Rustles the old tree
When the giant gives way.
All things tremble
In the realms of Hel,
Till Surfs son
Swallows up Odin.
How fare the gods?
How fare the elves?
Jotunheim shrieks.
The gods hold Thing;
The dwarfs shudder
Before their cleft caverns,
Where behind rocky walls they dwell.
Know ye now more or not?
Loud barks Garm[13]
At Gnipa-cave;
The fetters are severed,
The wolf is set free, –
Vala knows the future.
More does she see
Of the victorious gods'
Terrible fall.
From the east drives Hrym,
Bears his child before him;
Jormungander welters
In giant fierceness;
The waves thunder;
The eagle screams,
Rends the corpses with pale beak,
And Naglfar is launched.
A ship from the east nears,
The hosts of Muspel
Come o'er the main,
But Loke is pilot.
All grim and gaunt monsters
Conjoin with the wolf,
And before them all goes
The brother of Byleist.[14]
From the south wends Surt
With seething fire;
The sun of the war-god
Shines in his sword;
Mountains together dash,
And frighten the giant-maids;
Heroes tread the paths to Hel,
And heaven in twain is rent.
Over Hlini[15] then shall come
Another woe,
When Odin goes forth
The wolf to combat,
And he[16] who Bele slew
'Gainst Surt rides;
Then will Frigg's
Beloved husband[17] fall.
Loud barks Garm
At Gnipa-cave;
The fetters are severed,
The wolf is set free, –
Vala knows the future.
More does she see
Of the victorious gods'
Terrible fall.
Then Vidar, the great son
Of Victory's father,
Goes forth to fight
With the ferocious beast;
With firm grasp his sword
In the giant-born monster's heart
Deep he plants,
And avenges his father.
Then the famous son[18]
Of Hlodyn[19] comes;
Odin's son comes
To fight with the serpent;
Midgard's ward[20]
In wrath slays the serpent.
Nine paces away
Goes the son of Fjorgyn;
He totters, wounded
By the fierce serpent.
All men
Abandon the earth.
The sun darkens,
The earth sinks into the ocean;
The lucid stars
From heaven vanish;
Fire and vapor
Rage toward heaven;
High flames
Involve the skies.
Loud barks Garm
At Gnipa-cave;
The fetters are severed,
The wolf is set free, –
Vala knows the future.
More does she see
Of the victorious gods'
Terrible fall.
She sees arise
The second time,
From the sea, the earth
Completely green:
Cascades do fall,
The eagle soars,
From lofty mounts
Pursues its prey.
The gods convene
On Ida's plains,
And talk of the powerful
Midgard-serpent;
They call to mind
The Fenris-wolf
And the ancient runes
Of the mighty Odin.
Then again
The wonderful
Golden tablets
Are found in the grass:
In time's morning
The leader of the gods
And Odin's race
Possessed them.
The fields unsown
Yield their growth;
All ills cease;
Balder comes.
Hoder and Balder,
Those heavenly gods,
Dwell together in Hropt's[21] halls.
Conceive ye this or not?[22]
Sees a hall called Gimle;
It outshines the sun,
Of gold its roof;
It stands in heaven:
The virtuous there
Shall always dwell,
And evermore
Delights enjoy.
Then comes the mighty one[23]
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.
There comes the dark
Dragon[24] 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 Nidliug sink.
Примечания:
[1] {Verse 2 is missing. – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[2] {Verses 11-16: The dwarf-list is missing. – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[3] Ash and Elm.
[4] {Verses 20-24 are missing, those that deal with the Norns and Gullveig. – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[5] Freyja, whom the gods had promised the giant, was Oder’s wife.
[6] {Verse 27 concerning Heimdall’s hearing is missing.
Anderson also cites Benjamin Thorpe’s translation of verse 28 on p. 229.
28. (last half).
Full well I know,
great Odin, where
Thine eye thou lost;
In Mimer's well,
The fountain pure,
Mead Mimer drinks
Each morning new,
With Odin's pledge.
Conceive ye this?
Verse 29 is missing. – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[7] {The divine race. – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[8] Строфа взята с сайту http://www.germanicmythology.com/
[9] {Verses 34-35 are missing, those that concern Vali’s bonds and Loki’s binding.
Verse 36 concerning the river Slid is missing.
Verse 37 concerning Sindri’s hall and the giant Brimir’s beer-hall in Hel is missing. – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[10] {(Also cites Paul Henri Mallet’s translation of verses 40 and 41, elsewhere in the text) – Примечание с сайта http://www.germanicmythology.com/}
[11] Angerboda. See p. 179.
[12] Moongarm. See p. 180.
[13] Hel’s dog.
[14] Loke.
[15] One of Frigg’s maid-servants.
[16] Frey.
[17] Odin.
[18] Thor.
[19] Another name for Frigg.
[20] Defender.
[21] Odin’s.
[22] Verse 63 concerning Hoenir is missing.
[23] The Supreme God.
[24] Nidhug.