I do wonder if Christians could handle the whole of such full and valiant as the bit below?

Question

Voluspa (The Song of the Sybil)
An excerpt for education.

I tell of giants from times forgotten.
Those who fed me in former days:
Nine worlds I can reckon, nine roots of the tree.
The wonderful ash, way under the ground

When Ymir lived long ago
Was no sand or sea, no surging waves.
Nowhere was there earth nor heaven above.
Bur a grinning gap and grass nowhere.

The sons of Bur then built up the lands.
Moulded in magnificence middle-Earth:
Sun stared from the south on the stones of their hall,
From the ground there sprouted green leeks.

Sun turned from the south, sister of Moon,
Her right arm rested on the rim of Heaven;
She had no inkling where her hall was,
Nor Moon a notion of what might he had,
The planets knew not where their places were.

The high gods gathered in council
In their hall of judgement. all the rulers:
To Night and to Nightfall their names gave,
The Morning they named and the Mid-Day,
Mid-Winter, Mid-Summer, for the assigning of years.

The above is but five of 58 stanzas.

I am of the Lore. I only seek knowledge of all religions and pass it on to all seekers.

Answer 1

Sounds about as likely as any other creation myth.

Answer 2

elegant and poetic. but we know that if the sun were ever in the south, then the earth's axis would be off too much for it to orbit the sun and it would plunge into it.

Answer 3

Lovely literature.

Answer 4

lots of ancient cultures have these kinds of creation myths. what exactly is the point?

Answer 5

THOU I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH .I KILL ALL LIES WITH THE DOUBLE EDGE SWORD I CUT THEM IN HALF AND THROW THEM LIKE WEEDS OUT OF MY GARDEN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND THE TIME ,,OF TIMES AND HALF =2012 TURNING OVER TO 2013 IS COMING SHORTLY .DID I NOT SAY THE DEVIL KNOWS HE HAS BUT A SHORT TIME

Answer 6

Did Shakespeare write it?

Answer 7

So...you want them to replace their creation story with yours?