To break my iron-sleep again; Till Lok has burft his tenfold chain. Never, till fubftantial Night Has reaffum'd her ancient right; Till wrap'd in flames, in ruin hurl'd, * Lok is the evil Being, who continues in chains till the Twilight of the Gods approaches, when he shall break his bonds; the human race, the ftars, and fun, fhall disappear; the earth fink in the seas, and fire confume the fkies: even Odin himself and his kindred-deities shall perish. For a farther explanation of this mythology, fee Mallet's Introduction to the Hiftory of Denmark, 1755, Quarto. THE |