In stanza 17 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva reciting the poem states that Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin once found Ask and Embla on land.

In stanza 40 of the poem Völuspá, a völva divulges to Odin that, in the east, an old woman sat in the forest Járnviðr, " and bred there the broods of Fenrir.

In stanza 4 of Baldrs draumar, Odin rides towards the " high hall of Hel.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, among many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

In stanza 54, after consuming Odin and being killed by Odin's son Víðarr, Fenrir is described as " Loki's kinsman ".

Loki is mentioned in stanza 14, the final stanza of the poem, where the völva tells Odin to ride home, to be proud of himself, and that no one else will come visit until " Loki is loose, escaped from his bonds " and the onset of Ragnarök.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a Völva tells Odin that, amongst many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

Prose follows after this stanza, stating that a burial-mound was made for Helgi, and that when Helgi arrived in Valhalla, he was asked by Odin to manage things with him.

In stanza 10, Odin finally relents to the rules of hospitality, urging Víðarr to stand and pour a drink for the quarrelsome guest.

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

In stanza 137 of the poem Hávamál, Odin describes how he once sacrificed himself to himself by hanging on a tree.

In the stanza that follows, Odin describes how he had no food nor drink there, that he peered downward, and that " I took up the runes, screaming I took them, then I fell back from there.

Yggdrasil is first mentioned in the poem in stanza 29, where Odin says that, because the " bridge of the Æsir burns " and the " sacred waters boil ," Thor must wade through the rivers Körmt and Örmt and two rivers named Kerlaugar to go " sit as judge at the ash of Yggdrasill.

In stanza 31, Odin says that the ash Yggdrasil has three roots that grow in three directions.

In stanza 34, Odin says that more serpents lie beneath Yggdrasil " than any fool can imagine " and lists them as Góinn and Móinn ( possibly meaning Old Norse " land animal "), which he describes as sons of Grafvitnir ( Old Norse, possibly " ditch wolf "), Grábakr ( Old Norse " Greyback "), Grafvölluðr ( Old Norse, possibly " the one digging under the plain " or possibly amended as " the one ruling in the ditch "), Ófnir ( Old Norse " the winding one, the twisting one "), and Sváfnir ( Old Norse, possibly " the one who puts to sleep

In stanza 35, Odin says that Yggdrasil " suffers agony more than men know ", as a hart bites it from above, it decays on its sides, and Níðhöggr bites it from beneath.

In stanza 44, Odin provides a list of things that are what he refers to as the " noblest " of their kind.

In stanza 48 of the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð, Hárbarðr ( Odin, father of Thor, in disguise ) meets Thor at an inlet of a gulf.

Odin mentions the location Þrymheimr sixth in a single stanza.

In stanza 30 of the poem Völuspá, a völva ( a traveling seeress in Germanic society ) tells Odin that " she saw " valkyries coming from far away who are ready to ride to " the realm of the gods ".

In the second stanza, the woman explains that Odin placed a sleeping spell on her she could not break, and due to that spell she has been asleep a long time.

On the basis of one stanza in Hávamál-where Odin learns nine magic songs from the unnamed brother of his mother Bestla-some scholars have theorized that Bestla's brother may in fact be Mímir, who is then Odin's maternal uncle.

In stanza 24, the god Odin ( disguised as " Gagnráðr ") asks the jötunn Vafþrúðnir from where the day comes, and the night and its tides.

Following this final stanza a prose section details that after Loki left the hall, he disguised himself as a salmon and hid in the waterfall of Franangrsfors, where the Æsir caught him.

In stanza 27, the völva details that she is aware that " Heimdallr's hearing is couched beneath the bright-nurtured holy tree.

Further into the chapter, the stanza in Völuspá that details this sequence is cited.

After Helgi has killed the King Hunding in stanza 4, a prose narrative details that Helgi escapes and consumes the raw meat of cattle he has slaughtered on a beach, and he encounters Sigrún.

The stanza recounts that Freyja was once promised to an unnamed builder, later revealed to be a jötunn and so killed by Thor ( recounted in detail in Gylfaginning chapter 42 — see Prose Edda section below ).

The first stanza notes that Loki produced " the wolf " with the jötunn Angrboða, that Loki himself gave birth to the horse Sleipnir by the stallion Svaðilfari, and that Loki ( referred to as the " brother of Býleistr ") thirdly gave birth to " the worst of all marvels ".

In the first stanza, Skaði is described as a jötunn and a " fair maiden ".

In stanza 24 of Vafþrúðnismá, the god Odin ( disguised as " Gagnráðr ") asks the jötunn Vafþrúðnir from where the day comes, and the night and its tides.

In stanza 24 of the poem Vafþrúðnismál, the god Odin ( disguised as " Gagnráðr ") asks the jötunn Vafþrúðnir from where the day comes, and the night and its tides.

In one stanza, Hyndla notes that Þjazi " loved to shoot " and that Skaði was his daughter.

In Grímnismál, during Odin's visions of the various dwelling places of gods and giants he mentions that of Þjazi in stanza 11:

The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of an Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again.

Poe himself once recited the poem with the final stanza, but admitted it was not intelligible and that it was scarcely clear to himself.

Each of the first four lines ( stanza 1 ) get individually repeated in turn once by becoming successively the respective fourth lines of stanzas 2, 3, 4, & 5 ; and the first part of the first line is repeated as a short fifth line to conclude the sixth stanza.

Óðinn ’ s seduction of Rindr is described once outside the Gesta Danorum, in a line of stanza 3 of Sigurðarkviða, a poem by Kormákr Ögmundarson praising Sigurðr Hlaðajarl, who ruled around Trondheim in the mid-tenth century.

It sounded marvelous once I got to the second stanza but that first twelve was weak tea.

The stanza that introduces the first of his adventures in shapeshifting once again rhetorically reflects the narrator's admiration for his skills: preparing to persecute his archenemy Una he

A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become " Jabberwocky " while in Croft on Tees, close to nearby Darlington, where he lived as a child,