As the frost melts by the fires of Muspelheim Creeping to meet each other in the yawning void The screamer rises First of his kind Giants birthed from the pits Taste the milk of Audhumla as she drinks the salty ice Her licks bare progenitor, the aesir, tribe of gods Bearer of Odin, Bor, Vili and Ve Slayed by his kin and the one-eyed god His blood turned to oceans The soil forged from his skin Grass from his hair Clouds from his brains and the skies from his skull Torn by the gods Chaos from Order Gods to be torn Order to Chaos Darkness upon the face of the deep Dwarves raise the skull of Ymir Four corners of the realm Held high above the earth Until the new abyss From Ymir's flesh The earth was formed And from his bones The hills, the heavens From the skull of that ice-cold giant And from his blood, the seas