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Poetic Edda

They fell each other,  and fare from the fight All healed full soon to sit."
  Othin spake:42. "Twelfth answer me now  how all thou knowest Of the fate that is fixed for the gods;Of the runes of the gods  and the giants' race The truth indeed dost thou tell, (And wide is thy wisdom, giant!)"
  Vafthruthnir spake:43.[1] "Of the runes of the gods  and the giants' race The truth indeed can I tell, (For to every world have I won;)To nine worlds came I,  to Niflhel beneath, The home where dead men dwell."
  Othin spake:44.[2] "Much have I fared,  much have I found, Much have I got of the gods:What shall live of mankind  when at last there comes The mighty winter to men?"
  Vafthruthnir spake:45.[3] "In Hoddmimir's wood  shall hide themselves Lif and Lifthrasir then;
  1. ↑ Nine worlds: cf. Voluspo, 2. Niflhel: "Dark-Hell."
  2. ↑ The mighty winter: Before the final destruction three winters follow one another with no intervening summers.
  3. ↑ Snorri quotes this stanza. Hoddmimir's wood: probably

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