Note 57 — Chapter XXV · THE WATCH FIRE.
Reading edition
“Then shall brethren be Each other’s bane, And sister’s children rend The ties of kin. “Hard will be the age, And harlotry prevail,— An axe-age, a sword-age— Shields oft cleft in twain,— A storm-age, a wolf-age, Ere earth shall meet its doom.” The Völuspà.