In the poem Grímnismál, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) tells the young Agnar that every day Freyja allots seats to half of those that are slain in her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin owns the other half.

He tells the prince about Odin's wolves Geri and Freki, and, in the next stanza of the poem, states that Huginn and Muninn fly daily across the entire world, Midgard.

The poem called Belfast Confetti tells of the attacks made by the IRA.

The myth of the lost poem tells how an inspired work was mysteriously given to the poet and dispelled irrecoverably.

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 ".

The stanzas of the poem then begin: Loki mocks Andvari, and tells him that he can save his head by telling Loki where his gold is.

Hreidmar tells them to leave, and the poem continues without further mention of Loki.

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.

* Widely attributed to Lactantius although it shows no overt sign of Christianity, the poem The Phoenix ( de Ave Phoenice ) tells the story of the death and rebirth of that mythical bird.

* The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High German, tells the saga of Siegfried / Sigurd, who killed a dragon on the Drachenfels ( Siebengebirge ) (" dragons rock "), near Bonn at the Rhine and of the Burgundians and their court at Worms, at the Rhine and Kriemhild's golden treasure, which was thrown into the Rhine by Hagen.

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 ".

Filomena tells this story, one of the most famous in the Decameron, and the basis of John Keats ' narrative poem Isabella, or the Pot of Basil.

In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his son Víðarr will avenge Odin's death at Ragnarök by stabbing Fenrir in the heart.

The poem tells a story of an ugly witch who magically transforms at midnight into an alluring young woman.

He wrote " Friar Anselmo " at this time, a poem that tells of a sinning cleric's atonement through good deeds.

In Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil the first poem tells the tale of her " capture " by Tom Bombadil.

She tells how Akhmatova would write out her poem for a visitor on a scrap of paper to be read in a moment, then burnt in her stove.

The god Njörðr asks Freyr's servant Skírnir to talk to Freyr, and in the first stanza of the poem, Skaði also tells Skírnir to ask Freyr why he is so upset.

In the poem Hyndluljóð, the female jötunn Hyndla tells the goddess Freyja various mythological genealogies.

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 poem Grímnismál, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ), tortured, starved and thirsty, tells the young Agnar that he wishes that the valkyries Hrist (" shaker ") and Mist (" cloud ") would " bear him a horn ", then provides a list of 11 more valkyries whom he says " bear ale to the einherjar "; Skeggjöld (" axe-age "), Skögul, Hildr, Þrúðr (" power "), Hlökk (" noise ", or " battle "), Herfjötur (" host-fetter "), Göll (" tumult "), Geirahöð (" spear-fight "), Randgríð (" shield-truce "), Ráðgríð (" council-truce "), and Reginleif (" power-truce ").

First it tells about the Æsir and Ymir, then comes the poetic diction section with the poetic names of many things and lastly a poem called the List of Meters which Snorri composed about King Hakon and Duke Skuli.

The Alpine ligurian poem R sacrifisi dr can, written in Ligurian, tells of how a shepherd shot his sheepdog after finding it covered in sheep blood, only to later find a dead wolf in the stable.

", and Lugh recites a poem which tells Conn how many years he will reign, and the names of the kings who will follow him.

Saint Patrick refers to " apostate Picts ", while the poem Y Gododdin does not remark on the Picts as pagans.

" The legendary drinking, feasting and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Dyn Eidyn ( modern day Edinburgh ), and in the epic poem Y Gododdin, both dated around AD 700.

They are best known as the subject of the 6th-century Welsh poem Y Gododdin, which memorializes the Battle of Catraeth and is attributed to Aneirin.

The battle, which ended disastrously for the Britons, was memorialized in the poem Y Gododdin.

The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish poem ( Edinburgh: University Press )

Jones's style can be described as High Modernism ; the poem draws on literary influences from the 6th-century Welsh epic Y Gododdin to Thomas Malory's Morte d ' Arthur to try to make sense of the carnage he witnessed in the trenches.

Despite performing glorious deeds of valour and bravery, the poem relates that the Gododdin were massacred.

Reference is made to the " land of Manawyd " in the epic poem Y Gododdin.

The earliest reference to Arthur is in Aneirin's poem Y Gododdin ( c. 594 ).

" It may have been Æthelfrith who destroyed the British army at the Battle of Catraeth ( Catterick, c. 600 ); the battle is described in the early poem Gododdin.

The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish poem.

A stanza interpolated into the early 9th Century Welsh poem Y Gododdin refers to these events:

The poem Y Gododdin mentions some enmity between the " Sons of Godebog " and the heroes who fought for the Gododdin at the Battle of Catraeth.

These forts are likely to have been centres of power of the Votadini, who were the subject of the poem Y Gododdin which is thought to have been written about 600 AD in their hillfort on Edinburgh castle crag.

One of the oldest known pieces of British literature is a poem called ' Y Gododdin ', written in Old Welsh, having previously been passed down via the oral traditions of the Brythonic speaking Britons.

The " daughter of Eudaf Hir ( the Tall )" is mentioned briefly in the famous poem Gododdin of Aneirin:

In some ways the song echoes the Old Welsh poem Y Gododdin about a similar defeat in about 600.

The song The Flooers o ' the Forest commemorated this, an echo of the poem Y Gododdin on a similar tragedy in about 600.

The earliest of these would appear to be the Old Welsh poem, Y Gododdin, preserved in an 11th century manuscript.

Y Gododdin ( pronounced ) is a medieval Welsh poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Britonnic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named Catraeth in ca.

If the poem was composed soon after the battle, it must predate 638, when the fall of Din Eidyn was recorded in the reign of Oswy king of Bernicia, an event which is thought to have meant the collapse of the kingdom of the Gododdin.

Y Gododdin is not a narrative poem but a series of elegies for heroes who died in a battle whose history would have been familiar to the original listeners.