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90 EELiaiON OF THE NORTHMEN.
Bor's sons, by the Jotun-woman Bestla, Bolthom's
daughter, were Odin (OSinn), Yili, and Ye. Odin
became the father of the bright and beantifal j&ir,
therefore
the ruling Gods of Heaven and Earth ;
he is called All-father (Alfa8ir). ,
The sons of Bor slew the giant '^mir, and in his
blood the whole race of Frost-Giants was drowned,
aU but one pair who escaped, and from whom new
Jotun-races descended. Bor's sons carried the slain
"fmir out into the middle of Ginunga-gap ; there
they made the earth of his body, the sea of his
blood, the mountains of his bones, and the trees of
his hair ; of his skull they created the sky, which
they arched high above the earth and adorned with
sparks from Muspell ; but' the' brain they scattered
in the air and it became the gloomy clouds. Around
about the earth's surface they caused the deep sea to
flow, and upon its ufinost strand the Jotuns, who had
escaped, took up their abodes in Jotimheim and "fft-
gar5. As a protection against them, the bland,
creating powers made from "^'mir's brows a breast-
work around the inmost earth— a
' citadel
called
MiSgarS. From Heaven to Earth they set up the
bridge Bifrost, or the Rainbow.
The black, dark Night (Nott), of Jotun lineage,
became by the .^sir-son Delling, the mother of
Day (Dagr), who was beautiful as his father. * Odin
placed the mother and son in the heavens, and commanded
them to drive every day and night {ddgn)
over the earth. !N^ight rides before with the horse
Hrimfaxi (Frost-mane), who every morning bedews
the earth with the foam from his bits. Day follows