Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

RAGNAROK, 153

civilization. Doubtless, the inscribed tablets, by which the art of writing survived to the race ; for what would tablets be without inscriptions? For they talk of “the ancient runes of mighty Odin,” that is, of the runic letters, the alphabetical writing. And we shall see hereafter that this view is confirmed from other sources. There follows a happy age: “The fields unsown Yield their growth ; All ills cease. Balder comes. Hoder and Balder,

Those heavenly gods, Dwell together in Odin’s halls.”

The great catastrophe is past. Man is saved. ‘The world is once more fair. The sun shines again in heaven. Night and day follow each other in endless revolution around the hapny globe. Ragnarok is past.