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adultery shall be common, when no man shall spare his friend. Immediately shall succeed a desolating winter; the snow shall fall from the four corners of the world, the winds shall blow with fury, the whole earth shall be hard bound in ice. Three such winters shall pass away, without being softened by one summer. Then shall succeed astonishing prodigies: Then shall the monsters break their chains and escape: the great Dragon shall roll himself in the ocean, and with his motions the earth shall be overflowed: the earth shall be shaken; the trees shall be torn up by the roots; the rocks shall be dashed against each other. The Wolf Fenris, broke loose from his chains, shall open his enormous mouth which reaches from heaven to earth; the fire shall flash out from his eyes and nostrils; he shall devour the sun and the great Dragon who follows him, shall vomit forth upon the waters and into the air, great torrents of venom. In this confusion the stars shall fly from their places, the heaven shall cleave asunder, and the army of evil Genii and Giants conducted by Sortur (the black) and followed by Loke, shall break in, to attack the gods. But Heimdal the door-keeper of the Gods, rises up, he sounds his clanging trumpet;
