Editing Freyr (section)

===''Völuspá''===
''[[Völuspá]]'', the best known of the Eddic poems, describes the final confrontation between Freyr and Surtr during Ragnarök.

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:Surtr fer sunnan
:með sviga lævi,
:skínn af sverði
:sól valtíva.
:Grjótbjörg gnata,
:en gífr rata,
:troða halir helveg,
:en himinn klofnar.

:Þá kømr Hlínar
:harmr annarr fram,
:er Óðinn ferr
:við úlf vega,
:en bani Belja
:bjartr at Surti,
:þá mun Friggjar
:falla angan. ''Völuspá'' 51–52, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090413124631/http://www3.hi.is/~eybjorn/ugm/vsp3.html EB's edition]
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:Surtr moves from the south
:with the scathe of branches:<ref>A ''[[kenning]]'' meaning "fire".</ref>
:there shines from his sword
:the sun of Gods of the Slain.
:Stone peaks clash,
:and troll wives take to the road.
:Warriors tread the path from [[Hel (realm)|Hel]],
:and heaven breaks apart.

:Then is fulfilled [[Hlín]]'s
:second sorrow,
:when Óðinn goes
:to fight with the [[Fenrisulfr|wolf]],
:and [[List of names of Freyr|Beli's slayer]],
:bright, against Surtr.
:Then shall [[Frigg]]'s
:sweet friend fall. ''Völuspá'' 50–51, [[Ursula Dronke|Dronke]]'s translation
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Some scholars have preferred a slightly different translation, in which the sun shines "from the sword of the gods". The idea is that the sword which Surtr slays Freyr with is the "sword of the gods" which Freyr had earlier bargained away for Gerðr. This would add a further layer of tragedy to the myth. [[Sigurður Nordal]] argued for this view but the possibility represented by [[Ursula Dronke]]'s translation above is equally possible.