Part Nr 57

THE ASMEGIR AND THE BREIDABLIK OF THE UNDERWORLD

The palace Odin saw has a most important role.

Mimir had already seen the future, and read the signs, which proved that a terrible fate was in store for the world.

He did not want the clan of Men
descended from Askur and Embla to become irretrievably spoilt from
distress and sin, so he sought out two children, pure and unspoilt,
in order to preserve them.

In Midgard he found Líf and Leifþrasir, and ordered his sons to build for them a magnificent palace in the land of morning-light to the east of Jörmungrund, a palace surrounded by the greenest of woods.

The palace was also built for Baldur, whose fate Mimir had foreseen.

Dellingur, the Elf of morning, is the gate-keeper of Breidablik.

The gate was built by Sindri (Dvalin) and his smiths, and through it no sorrow or sin will ever pass, nor old age, nor illness.

The two human children are nourished by the succulent
dew which drips off the branches of Yggdrasill.

So now they awaited the coming of Baldur, and the drink which gives new life to the dead,
awaited him in the hall.

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