PART III

THE GATHERING STORM

Nú er fyri geirrum grár upp kominn
vefr verþjóðar er þær vinur fylla
rauðum vepti Randvés bana.

The web of man grey as armour
Is now being woven; the Valkyries
Will cross it with a crimson weft.

Darraðarljóð (thirteenth-century Old Norse poem)