“But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.”

“To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.”

“Wiem, gdzie jesion stoi, Yggdrasill się zowie,Lśniącą wilgotnością pień jego zroszony;Z niego idzie rosa, co w dolinach spada,Koło Urs studni wciąż zielony stoi.”

“Obłęd i szał, rozczarowanie i żal,Siądź tu, a opowiem tobie o męce tęsknotyI zdwojonym bólu.”

“And now, if you have anything more to ask, I can't think how you can manage it, for I've never heard anyone tell more of the story of the world. Make what use of it you can.”

“In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next generation.”

“in 3000 b.c....in spain, france, the british isles and old europe, the lives of people centered on nature and motherhood. they honored mother nature, mother earth and mother creator. women were revered as the givers of life. as creators, they were thought to be connected to diety. statues of the goddesses of these early people were of full-breasted women with bodies clearly depicting the ballooning abdomen of women about to give birth. these primal people regarded birthing as the highest manifestation of nature. when a woman gave birth, everyone gathered around her in the temple for the "celebration of life." birthing was a religious rite, and not at all the painful ordeal it came to be years later. ”