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Poetic Edda

  Thor spake:13. "Answer me, Alvis!  thou knowest all, Dwarf, of the doom of men:What call they the moon,  that men behold, In each and every world?"
  Alvis spake:14.[1] "'Moon' with men, 'Flame'  the gods among, 'The Wheel' in the house of hell;'The Goer' the giants,  'The Gleamer' the dwarfs. The elves 'The Teller of Time.'"
  Thor spake:15. "Answer me, Alvis!  thou knowest all, Dwarf, of the doom of men:What call they the sun,  that all men see, In each and every world?"
  Alvis spake:16.[2] "Men call it 'Sun,'  gods 'Orb of the Sun,' 'The Deceiver of Dvalin' the dwarfs;The giants 'The Ever-Bright,'  elves 'Fair Wheel,' 'All-Glowing' the sons of the gods."
  1. ↑ Flame: a doubtful word; Vigfusson suggests that it properly means a "mock sun." Wheel: the manuscript adds the adjective "whirling," to the destruction of the metre; cf. Hovamol, 84, 3.
  2. ↑ Deceiver of Dvalin: Dvalin was one of the foremost dwarfs; cf. Voluspo, 14, Fafnismol, 13, and Hovamol, 144. The

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