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Life after Ragnarök

The Prose Edda / The Younger Edda · Gylfaginning, chapter XVII, section 58, pp. 148–149

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Rasmus B. Anderson translation, 1879; 1901 edition; public-domain wording

Rasmus B. Anderson translation, 1879; 1901 edition; public-domain wording

Then said Ganglere: Do any gods live then? Is there any earth or heaven? Har answered: The earth rises again from the sea, and is green and fair. The fields unsown produce their harvests. Vidar and Vale live. Neither the sea nor Surfs fire has harmed them, and they dwell on the plains of Ida, where Asgard was before. Thither come also the sons of Thor, Mode and Magne, and they have Mjolner. Then come Balder and Hoder from Hel. They all sit together and talk about the things that happened aforetime,—about the Midgard-serpent and the Fenris-wolf. They find in the grass those golden tables which the asas once had.

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1000 BCE010001500180019002000About 1220 · Prophecy given or recorded · Estimated composition of the Prose Edda
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