Crossword-Solution: VALA 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

ENDNOTES: (1) Volubrjotr.--Literally "the one who breaks the vala", that is, breaks the skulls of witches.

But God grant, also, that if that day does come, then may come true also what that wise Vala sang, of the day when gods, and men, and earth should be burnt up with fire.

The offerings and vala and priest denied The wished-for token; And Helge, affrighted by signs he'd tried, With "No," replied, For men must obey when the gods have spoken.

With a voice As sad, as awful as the ghostly vala's In Vegtam's song, when she for Odin sung Of asas' fate and grim Hel's victory, So sad he spoke: "Though banishment or death I could decree, by our ancestral laws Against this crime, yet I'll be mild as Balder, Whose sacred dwelling thou hast so profaned.

Necessity's real wisdom cannot have A fairer, better advocate than thou, Thou beauteous vala with the rosy lips! I yield indeed unto necessity; I part with thee but part not with my hope; I'll take it with me over western waves, I'll take it with me to the gates of death.