From Ymer's flesh, in the dawning of time, was made
The earth, and from his blood the raging sea,
The rocks from his bones, and from his hair
the trees,
And plants; his skull became the vaulted heaven;
And Midgard, from his fringed lids, the gods
Kindly have fashioned for the sons of men;
And from his brain, the clouds that dress the sky
Of Summer, or dart their lightnings in the storm,
Their first substance had.