- A hall she saw standing
- remote from the sun
- on Dead Body Shore.
- Its door looks north.
- There fell drops of venom
- in through the roof vent.
- That hall is woven
- of serpents’ spines.
- She saw there wading
- onerous streams
- men perjured
- and wolfish murderers
- and the one who seduces
- another’s close-trusted wife.
- There Malice Striker sucked
- corpses of the dead,
- the wolf tore men.
- Do you still seek to know? And what?
38. A hall I saw, | far from the sun,
On Nastrond it stands, | and the doors face north,
Venom drops | through the smoke-vent down,
For around the walls | do serpents wind.
39. I saw there wading | through rivers wild
Treacherous men | and murderers too,
And workers of ill | with the wives of men;
There Nithhogg sucked | the blood of the slain,
And the wolf tore men; | would you know yet more?
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- I know a hall standing
- far from the sun,
- In Nástrand:
- the doors to northward are turned;
- Venom-drops falls
- down from the roof-holes;
- That hall is bordered
- with backs of serpents.
- There are doomed to wade
- the weltering streams
- Men that are mansworn,
- and they that murderers are.
- But it is worst in Hvergelmir:
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- There the cursed snake tears
- dead men's corpses. Gylfaginning 52
A Heretic may see the truth and seek redemption. He may be forgiven his past and will be absolved in death. A Traitor can never be forgiven. A Traitor will never find peace in this world or the next. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor. - Cardinal Khrysdam, Instrutum Absolutio
