 High says that after Asgard had been built, and the gods assembled on their thrones and held their things.There they "discussed where the dwarfs had been generated from in the soil and down in the earth like maggots in flesh.The dwarfs had taken shape first and acquired life in the flesh of Ymir and were then maggots, but by decision of the gods they became conscious with intelligence and had the shape of men though they live in the earth and in rocks".