Odin, Tyr, and Baldur were beside Urda's Well when Thor came struggling out of the Cloud River, wet and choking, but with his hammer still upon his shoulder. He stept out into the Cloud River that flowed by the Rainbow Bridge, and with his hammer upon his shoulder he went struggling on to the other river. Yet if he went that way he could keep on his shoulder the hammer which he would not leave in another's charge. It was a bad way for one to go, cold and suffocating. Thor looked out on the two great rolling rivers of Cloud. Canst thou wade through them? They are cold and suffocating, but they will bring thee to Urda's Well, where sit the three holy Norns."
"Behold these two great Cloud Rivers, Körmt and Ermt. "There is another way to Urda's Well," said Heimdall. And I may not be turned back from going with Odin and my comrades." "I will not leave in any one's charge the hammer that defends Asgard. Leave your hammer here with me if you would go this way." "I will not let the bridge be broken under the weight of you and your hammer. "Nevertheless I will go visit the Norns with Odin and my comrades," said Thor. The bridge I guard would break under you, Thor with the hammer." "You with the mighty hammer you carry are too weighty for this way. "Yes, for I am Keeper of the Way to the Norns," said Heimdall. "What? Would you, Hemidall, hold me back?" said Thor. "The others may go, but you may not go that way, Thor," said Hemidall. Thor followed, but before his foot was placed on the bridge, Hemidall laid his hand upon him. Then did Odin and Tyr and Baldur step out on the bridge. Without a word Heimdall opened wide the gate that led to that bridge more colored and more tremulous than any rainbow seen from earth.
"Open the gate, Heimdall," said the All-Father, "open the gate, for today the Gods would visit the holy Norns." And where the ends of the two rainbows came together Heimdall stood, Heimdall with the Golden Teeth, the Watcher for the Gods, and the Keeper of the Way to Urda's Well. This Rainbow Bridge was seldom seen by men. But another Rainbow Bridge, more beautiful and more tremulous still, went from Asgard to that root of Ygdrassil under which was Urda's Well. Odin went, and Tyr, the great swordsman, and Baldur, the most beautiful and the Best-Beloved of the Gods, and Thor, with his Hammer.Ī Rainbow Bridge went from Asgard, the City of the Gods, to Midgard, the World of Men. Let us go to the holy Norns who sit by Urda's Well and see if the shadows and the forebodings will remain when you have looked into their eyes."Īnd so it came that Odin and the Gods left Asgard and came to Urda's Well, where, under the great root of Ygdrassil, the three Norns sat, with the two fair swans below them. And when he spoke to her about these things she said, "Do not strive against what must take place.
But Frigga, his Queen, saw in his eyes the shadows and forebodings of things to come.
Odin All-Father did not speak to the Dwellers in Asgard of the things they told him. They told him only of shadows and forebodings. Then did the All-Father go into the Council Hall that was beside Glasir, the wood that had leaves of gold, and harken to what Hugin and Munin had to tell him. Then Odin, standing on the Watch-Tower Hlidskjalf, said to himself:Ī day passed and the ravens flew back. And once a day passed without the ravens coming back. They flew through all the worlds every day, and coming back to Asgard they would light on Odin's shoulders and tell him of all the things they had seen and heard. Odin All-Father had two ravens Hugin and Munin were their names. The All-Father's Forebearings: How Odin Leaves Asgard Norse Mythology and Viking Legends for Kids
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