They took the
sparks and gledes that went loose, and had been cast out of
Muspellheim, and set them in the lift to give light; they gave
resting-places to all fires, and set some in the lift; some fared
free under it, and they gave them a place and shaped their
goings. A wondrous great smithying, and deftly done. The earth
is fashioned round without, and there beyond, round about it lies
the deep sea; and on that sea-strand the gods gave land for an
abode to the giant kind, but within on the earth made they a burg
round the world against restless giants, and for this burg reared
they the brows of Ymir, and called the burg Midgard. The gods
went along the sea-strand and found two stocks, and shaped out of
them men; the first gave soul and life, the second wit and will
to move, the third face, hearing, speech, and eyesight. They
gave them clothing and names; the man Ask and the woman Embla;
thence was mankind begotten, to whom an abode was given under
Midgard. Then next Bor's sons made them a burg in the midst of
the world, that is called Asgard; there abode the gods and their
kind, and wrought thence many tidings and feats, both on earth
and in the Sky.
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