In stanza 41, the völva says:

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 19, the völva says:

In stanza 20, the völva says that from the lake under the tree come three " maidens deep in knowledge " named Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld.

The völva says that, presumably after Gullveig's burning, she was called Heiðr and that Heiðr was a knowledgeable völva who could perform great feats:

In a stanza early in the poem Völuspá, the völva says that early in the mythological timeline, the gods met together at the location of Iðavöllr and constructed a hörgr and a hof ( Henry Adams Bellows and Ursula Dronke here gloss hörgr as " temples "):

The völva says that, during Ragnarök, Surtr will come from the south with flames, carrying a very bright sword:

Historical and mythological depictions of völur show that they were held in high esteem and believed to possess such powers that even the father of the gods, Odin himself, consulted a völva to learn what the future had in store for the gods.

The weapon of the völva was not the spear, the axe or the sword but instead they were held to influence battles with different means, and one of them was the wand, ( see the section wands and weaving, below ).

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 the poem, the goddess Freyja meets the völva Hyndla and they ride together towards Valhalla.

A detailed eyewitness account of a human sacrifice by what may have been a völva was given by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921.

In the poem, a völva recalls that Gullveig was pierced by spears before being burnt three times in the hall of Hárr ( Hárr is one of Odin's various names ), and yet was three times reborn.

Sigmund being of the Völsung line, Signý believes her brother will produce a son worthy of claiming a place in that line, and one night she " exchange shape " with a völva, goes to Sigmund in his underground dwelling, and spends three nights in his bed with Sigmund unaware that she is his sister in another form.

" Further into the poem, the völva foretells that Odin will be consumed by Fenrir at Ragnarök:

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.

It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end related by a völva addressing Odin.

Finally, in despair, she comes to him in the guise of a völva and conceives a child by him, Sinfjötli ( the Fitela of Beowulf ).

" In order to accomplish this seemingly impossible task, he summons by necromancy the shade of his dead mother, Gróa, a völva who also appears in the Prose Edda, to cast nine spells for him.

Gróa is also a völva, summoned from beyond the grave, in the Old Norse poem Grógaldr, ( a section of Svipdagsmál ), by her son Svipdagr.

The single mention of Gjallarhorn by name occurs in the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, wherein a völva foresees the events of Ragnarök and the role in which Heimdallr and Gjallarhorn will play at its onset ; Heimdallr will raise his horn and blow loudly.

In Scandinavian mythology, Huld is only referenced by völva or seiðkona, that is a woman who practiced the seiðr.

When he was an infant, a völva predicted that he would be killed by his own horse Faxi, at the place where he was born, at the age of 300.

During the Christianization of Norway, King Olaf ordered male völva s ( seid men ) tied and left on a skerry at ebb, resulting in a protracted death by drowning and the securing of Christian hegemony in the Norwegian kingdom.

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 ".

Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL-CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor.

Where only one club existed before, he says, two will flourish henceforth.

Dow says that the fluid can be used now for two years.

`` most orthodontic work is done on children between the ages of 10 and 14, though there have been patients as young as two and as old as 55 '', says Dr. Brodie.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

( `` One of the reasons they get along fine '', says a sportswriter who is friendly with the two men, `` is that both realize Mantle is head-and-shoulders above Maris ''.

( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.

Eventually, says Keys, one of two things happens.

One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.

He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

Austrian Germanist Rudolf Simek says that Bifröst either means " the swaying road to heaven " ( also citing bifa ) or, if Bilröst is the original form of the two ( which Simek says is likely ), " the fleetingly glimpsed rainbow " ( possibly connected to bil, perhaps meaning " moment, weak point ").

He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah ( a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the " great sages " of Israel ) and 4 Maccabees ( 1st century CE ), and by the 1st century CE historian Josephus, says that the prophet wrote two books.

This is visible in act two ; after Banquo sees Duncan to bed, he says: " There's husbandry in heaven, / Their candles are all out ".

William the Breton also says in his column that the two lines of combatants were separated by a small space.

Wu Jinglian, one of China's leading economists and a longtime champion of its transition to free markets, says that it faces two starkly contrasting futures: a market economy under the rule of law or crony capitalism.

The chain rule says that the composite of these two linear transformations is the linear transformation, and therefore it is the function that scales a vector by f ′( g ( a )) g ′( a ).

The entry says " Here Ceawlin and Cutha fought against Aethelberht and drove him into Kent ; and they killed two ealdormen, Oslaf and Cnebba, on Wibbandun.

In this passage Jesus says that an offended Christian should draw the offender's fault to his attention at first privately ; then, if the offender refuses to listen, to bring one or two others, that there may be more than a single witness to the charge ; next, if the offender still refuses to listen, to bring the matter before the church, and if the offender refuses to listen to the church, to treat him as " a Gentile and a tax collector ".

Legend says that about two thousand years ago, Emperor Suinin ordered his daughter, Princess Yamatohime-no-mikoto, to set out and find a suitable permanent location from which to hold ceremonies for Amaterasu Omikami, the Sun Goddess.

In particular Bainimarama says that the two countries were exerting pressure on Sri Lankan judges, brought in by Bainimarama to replace the uncooperative local judiciary, not to travel to the country and refusing to grant them transit visas.

In particular Bainimarama says that the two countries were exerting pressure on Sri Lankan judges, brought in by Bainimarama to replace the uncooperative local judiciary, not to travel to the country and refusing to grant them transit visas.