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• "Out was Ask upon a Day
• And Embla did the washing
• Out hung linens fresh and sweet
• Yet her children needed washing.

• "Out was Odin on the Day
• And through the forest riding
• And with him Hoenir and Lodur
• Upon that Day a riding.

• "Fast they came to Embla's house
• And went they to her knocking
• Inside did Embla wash her babes
• When her lords they came a knocking.

• "Pleased she was upon that day
• For half her babes were drying
• But shamed was she upon that day
• For half her brood was filthy.

• "Beneath the floor she hid her brood
• The ones still needing washing
• And came back Embla to her door
• To answer them a knocking.

• "In came they as she bidded them
• And they began a talking
• Of earthen songs and goings on
• And babes in cradles rocking.

• "Wholesome kin you have my dear
• Said Odin while a talking
• Yes, my lone said Embla dear
• Whilst they four were talking.

• "But Odin knew this false to be
• For he was one All-Seeing
• And spied he more of Embla's brood
• Down below unseeing.

• "There they are and there they stay!
• Said the three lords shouting
• To us you lied our Embla dear
• Upon your husband's outing.

• "So from the babes below did
• Hoenir take their feeling
• And Lodur paled their rosy cheeks
• And Odin hushed their breathing.

• "So man-folk here above belong
• In the daylight shining
• And elf-folk Embla left for shame
• In shadows dark and pining."