 After "many ages" Niflheimr was made, and within it lies a spring, Hvergelmir, from which flows eleven rivers.Gangleri asks the three what things were like before mankind.High continues that these icy rivers, which are called Élivágar, ran so far from their spring source that the poisonous matter that flows with them became hard "like the clinker that comes from a furnace"—it turned to ice.