Prose Edda — Old Norse facing a living language
Þá mælti Gangleri: "Hvat varð þá um þeira sætt, eða hvárir váru ríkari?" Þá svarar Hárr: "Synir Bors drápu Ymi jötun, en er hann féll, þá hljóp svá mikit blóð ór sárum hans, at með því drekkðu þeir allri ætt hrímþursa, nema einn komst undan með sínu hýski. Hann kalla jötnar Bergelmi. Hann fór upp á lúðr sinn ok kona hans ok helzt þar, ok eru af þeim komnar hrímþursa ættir, svá sem hér segir: 9.
Then Gangleri asked: "What came of the peace between them — which side had the greater strength?" High answered: "Bur's sons killed the giant Ymir, and where he fell, so much blood poured from his wounds that they drowned the whole race of rime-giants in it — all but one, who escaped with his household. The giants call him Bergelmir. He got up onto his boat with his wife and survived there, and from them come the later generations of rime-giants, as it says here: Countless winters / before the earth was made, / Bergelmir was born.
Örófi vetra áðr væri jörð of sköpuð, þá var Bergelmir borinn; þat ek fyrst of man, er sá inn fróði jötunn á var lúðr of lagiðr."
/ This is what I first remember: / when that wise giant / was laid in a boat."