Fimbul-Winter describes three consecutive winters with no summers in between. Fimbul-Winter (or "Fimbulvetr") takes its name from The Prose Edda, a text on Old Norse Poetics written in about 1200. Within these three winters, the poems' characters must force themselves upon the landscape, "sculpt their parking spaces, / carve them out like little caves, arced alcoves." Despite such frozen spaces, Allbery finds consolation: "that passed and so may this."