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Quotation from The Poetic Edda by Anonymous (Old Norse)

“Axe-time, sword-time, | shields are sundered, Wind-time, wolf-time, | ere the world falls;”

Anonymous (Old Norse) (spoken by The Volva)

The Poetic Edda, Voluspo, stanza 45, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923)

Portrait of Anonymous (Old Norse)

The seeress foretells the age of strife among kinsmen that leads to Ragnarök.

Citation: "Axe-time, sword-time, | shields are sundered, Wind-time, wolf-time, | ere the world falls;" — Anonymous (Old Norse), The Poetic Edda, Voluspo, stanza 45, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923). (id poetic-edda-q3)

Portrait: Codex Regius of Eddaic Poems, Unknown author, Public domain.

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