In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a...

Fearlessness is better than a faint heart for any man who puts his nose out of doors. The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago.

A culture finds the gods it needs.

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his...

The three sons of Bor had no liking for Ymir… At last they attacked Ymir and killed him. His wounds were like springs; so much blood streamed from them and so fast, that the flood...