Till Lok<note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="bottom"> <emph>Lok</emph> is the evil Being, who continues in chains till the <emph>Twilight of the Gods</emph> approaches, when he shall break his bonds; the human race, the stars, and sun, shall disappear; the earth sink in the seas, and fire consume the skies: even Odin himself and his kindred-deities shall perish. For a farther explanation of this mythology, see Mallet's Introduction to the History of Denmark, 1755, Quarto. [(A slightly more detailed draft of this note is in <bibl>C[ommonplace] B[ook]</bibl>).] </note> has burst his tenfold chain;