Mortal, thou that hear'ft the tale, Sifters! hence with fpurs of speed: G THE DESCENT OF ODIN. AN OD E. (From the NORSE-TONGUE,) I N BARTHOLINUS, de caufis contemnendæ mortis HAFNIE, 1689, Quarto. Upreis Odinn Allda Gautr, &c, G THE DESCENT OF ODIN. AN OD E. UP rofe the King of Men with speed, And faddled ftrait his coal-black fteed; Down the yawning steep he rode, *Niflheimr, the hell of the Gothic nations, confifted of nine worlds, to which were devoted all fuch as died of fickness, old age, or by any other means than in battle. Over it prefided Hela, the Goddess of death. |