In times of primeval chaos The first of the giants burst forth A junction of ice and fire (and fire) Unveiling an atrocious eyesore When doze fell over the land of giants Its limbs laid coalesced in a lace Forged in rime, heads counting six (counting six) Hrimthursar linked the chains of a race The nine worlds were portrayed with his flesh And life dawned twinkling from her seed The summer, the winter, the sun and the moon The incipience of all life paid with greed Rejected from the hearth of Æsir Wind and water rose from their might Submission as a role for existence While enmity ingrains strained Sustaining the clockwork of nature The Jötnar forsaken remain The nine worlds were portrayed with his flesh And life dawned twinkling from her seed The summer, the winter, the sun and the moon The incipience of all life paid with greed