Note 7 — BOOK XII.
Reading edition
—Page 430, stanza cxxxii.
And the last Fire-God and the Flaming Sword!
"And the last Fire-God and the Flaming Sword," i.e., Surtur the genius, who dwells in the region of fire (Muspelheim), whose flaming sword shall vanquish the gods themselves in the last day. (Prose Edda).