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Quotation from The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

“Erst was the age when nothing was: Nor sand nor sea, nor chilling stream-waves; Earth was not found, nor Ether-Heaven, — A Yawning Gap, but grass was none.”

Snorri Sturluson (spoken by Hárr, quoting Voluspa)

The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning IV, trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916)

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Hárr answers the question of what was before the beginning with a stanza from Voluspa describing the void of Ginnungagap.

Citation: "Erst was the age when nothing was: Nor sand nor sea, nor chilling stream-waves; Earth was not found, nor Ether-Heaven, — A Yawning Gap, but grass was none." — Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning IV, trans. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916). (id prose-edda-q2)

Portrait: Snorre Sturluson-Christian Krohg, Christian Krohg, Public domain.

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