Grafvitnir

"Gnawing wofl." The father of Góinn and Móinn, two of the serpents that slither at the foot of the world-tree Yggdrasil:

More serpents lie

under Yggdrasil's ash,

than any one would think

of witless mortals:

Goin and Moin

they are Grafvitnir's sons

Grabak and Grafvöllud,

Ofnir and Svafnir,

will, I ween,

the branches of that tree

ever lacerate.

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