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Fafnir answers, "Many there be and wide apart; for some are of the kin of the Aesir, and some are of Elfin kin, and some there are who are daughters of Dvalin." Said Sigurd, "How namest thou the holm whereon Surt and the Aesir mix and mingle the water of the sword?" "Unshapen is that holm hight," said Fafnir.
When Odin came back to Asgard, Hermod took the bridle from his father's hand and told him that the rest of the Aesir were gone to the Peacestead a broad, green plain which lay just outside the city. This was the playground of the Aesir, where they practiced trials of skill one with another, and held tournaments and sham fights.
Probably it does not; at all events, none of the old Aesir, according to the poems, are to survive, for Modi and Magni are not really Gods at all, Baldr, Höd and Vali belong to another myth, Hoeni had passed out of the hierarchy by his exchange with Njörd, and Vidar's origin is obscure. The Einherjar, the great champions or chosen warriors, are intimately connected with Ragnarök.
Hence, in the systematising of the Viking religion, the responsibility for Baldr's death also was transferred to him. Like his son the Wolf, he is chained by the Gods; the episode is related in a prose-piece affixed to Lokasenna: "After that Loki hid himself in Franangr's Foss in the form of a salmon. There the Aesir caught him.
"Because, forsooth," cried my father, exploding, "because the Etrurians called their gods the 'AEsar, and the Scandinavians called theirs the 'AEsir, or 'Aser'! And where do you think this adventurous scholar puts their cradle?" "Cradle!" said my mother, dreamily, "it must be in the nursery."
'Seize and bind them lads', cried Reidmar; 'for they have slain your brother Otter'. So they were seized and bound by Regin and Fafnir, and offered an atonement to buy off the feud, and Reidmar was to name the sum. Then Otter was flayed, and the Aesir were to fill the skin with red gold, and cover it without, that not a hair could be seen.
"Carry him to the funeral pyre!" said Odin, at length; and four of the AEsir stooped down and lifted their dead brother. With scarcely any sound they carried the body tenderly to the seashore and laid it upon the deck of that majestic ship called Ringhorn, which had been his. Then they stood round waiting to see who would come to the funeral.
"I know that if we are to lose L500 every year on a farm which we hold rent-free, and which the best judges allow to be a perfect model for the whole country, we had better make haste and turn AEsir, or Aser, or whatever you call them, and fix a settlement on the property of other nations, otherwise, I suspect, our probable settlement will be on the parish."
This race, and that of the upstart Aesir, though almost always at feud, still had their intervals of common intercourse, and even social enjoyment. Marriages take place between them, visits are paid, feasts are given, ale is breached, and mirth is fast and furious. Thor was the worst foe the giants ever had, and yet he met them sometimes on good terms.
Sigurd refusing to tell his name is to be referred to the superstition that a dying man could throw a curse on his enemy. Surt; a fire-giant, who will destroy the world at the Ragnarok, or destruction of all things. Aesir; the gods.
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