11. "Rind bears Vali | in Vestrsalir,
And one night old | fights Othin's son;
His hands he shall wash not, | his hair he shall comb not,
Till the slayer of Baldr | he brings to the flames.
Unwilling I spake, | and now would be still."

Othin spake:

12. "Wise-woman, cease not! | I seek from thee
All to know | that I fain would ask:
What maidens are they | who then shall weep,
And toss to the sky | the yards of the sails?"

The Wise-Woman spake:

13. "Vegtam thou art not, | as erstwhile I thought;
Othin thou art, | the enchanter old."

Othin spake:

"No wise-woman art thou, | nor wisdom hast;
Of giants three | the mother art thou."

The Wise-Woman spake:

14. "Home ride, Othin, | be ever proud; For no one of men | shall seek me more Till Loki wanders | loose from his bonds, And to the last strife | the destroyers come."

[11. Rind: mentioned by Snorri as one of the goddesses. Concerning her son Vali, begotten by Othin for the express purpose of avenging Baldr's death, and his slaying of Hoth the day after his birth, cf. Voluspo, 33-34, where the lines of this stanza appear practically verbatim. Vestrsalir ("The Western Hall"): not else where mentioned in the poems.

12. The manuscript marks the third line as the beginning of a stanza; something may have been lost. Lines 3 & 4 are thoroughly obscure. According to Bugge the maidens who are to weep for Baldr are the daughters of the sea-god Ægir, the waves, whose grief will be so tempestuous that they will toss the ships up to the very sky. "Yards of the sails" is a doubtfully accurate rendering; the two words, at any rate in later Norse nautical speech, meant respectively the "tack" and the "sheet" of the square sail.

13. Possibly two separate stanzas. Enchanter: the meaning of the original word is most uncertain.

14. Concerning Loki's escape and his relation to the destruction of the gods, cf. Voluspo, 35 and 51, and notes. While the wise-woman probably means only that she will never speak again till the end of the world, it has been suggested, and is certainly possible, that she intends to give Loki her counsel, thus revenging herself on Othin.]

11. Rindr berr Vála í vestrsölum,
sá mun Óðins sonr einnættr vega:
hönd of þvær né höfuð kembir,
áðr á bál of berr Baldrs andskota;
nauðug sagðak, nú mun ek þegja."

Óðinn kvað:

12. "Þegj-at-tu, völva, þik vil ek fregna,
unz alkunna, vil ek enn vita:
Hverjar ro þær meyjar, er at muni gráta
ok á himin verpa halsa skautum?"

Völva kvað:

13. "Ert-at-tu Vegtamr, sem ek hugða,
heldr ertu Óðinn, aldinn gautr."

Óðinn kvað:

"Ert-at-tu völva né vís kona,
heldr ertu þriggja þursa móðir."

Völva kvað:

14. "Heim ríð þú, Óðinn, ok ver hróðigr,
svá komir manna meir aftr á vit,
er lauss Loki líðr ór böndum
ok ragna rök rjúfendr koma."