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Völuspá and Old
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 ").
The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, provide lists of valkyrie names.
Hildr is also mentioned along with other valkyries in Völuspá, Darraðarljóð and other Old Norse poems.
The Old Norse noun óðr may be the origin of the theonym Óðinn ( Anglicized as Odin ), and it means " mind ", " soul " or " spirit " ( so used in stanza 18. 1 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ).
* One of the dwarves named in the Old Norse poem Völuspá.
The book contains versions, sometimes the only extant versions, of many Old Icelandic texts, such as the Landnámabók, the Fóstbrœðra saga, the Eiríks saga rauða, the Hervarar saga and the Völuspá.
* In the Völuspá the being Níðhöggr is identified as a dragon ( Old Norse: dreki )

Völuspá and Norse
Norse mythology also contains examples of necromancy, such as the scene in the Prophecy of the Völva ( Völuspá ) in which Odin summons a völva, or shamanic seeress, from the dead to tell him of the future.
In the Poetic Edda ( Völuspá 12 ), the Dvergatal lists Reginn as a Dvergr ( Norse dwarf ).
Two Norse mythology | Norse dwarf ( Germanic mythology ) | dwarves as depicted in a 19th century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich
In addition to the unnamed seeress ( possibly identical with Heiðr ) in Völuspá, other examples of völur in Norse literature include Gróa in Svipdagsmál, Þórbjörgr in the Saga of Eric the Red and Huld in for instance Ynglinga saga.
Gandalf is a Dvergr ( Norse dwarf ) in Norse mythology, appearing in the poem Völuspá, the Poetic Edda, and the Prose Edda.
The film takes its title from Völuspá, an ancient Norse poem which describes the time before the Ragnarök, the end of the world.

Völuspá and Prophecy
Such an account is preserved in the Völuspá which roughly translates to " Prophecy of the Völva ".

Völuspá and Völva
Among the visions which the Völva sees and describes in the prophecy known as the Völuspá is one of the fatal mistletoe, the birth of Váli and the weeping of Frigg ( stanzas 31-33 ).
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 ".

Völuspá and Modern
Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

Völuspá and Icelandic
* Völuspá: The Song of the Sybil ( translated by Paul B. Taylor and W. H. Auden, Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor, 1968 )

Völuspá and is
Fenrir is mentioned in three stanzas of the poem Völuspá, and in two stanzas of the poem Vafþrúðnismál.
In chapter 13 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Fenrir is first mentioned in a stanza quoted from Völuspá.
In the Poetic Edda, Freyja is mentioned or appears in the poems Völuspá Grímnismál, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Oddrúnargrátr, and Hyndluljóð.
In the Poetic Edda, Heimdallr is attested in six poems ; Völuspá, Grímnismál, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Rígsþula, and Hrafnagaldr Óðins.
Heimdallr is mentioned thrice in Völuspá.
In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Hel's realm is referred to as the " Halls of Hel.
In the Poetic Edda, Loki appears ( or is referenced ) in the poems Völuspá, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Reginsmál, Baldrs draumar, and Hyndluljóð.
Loki is referenced in two stanzas in Völuspá hin skamma, found within the poem Hyndluljóð.
Valhalla is referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 33 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the " woe of Valhalla ", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with Hyndla, in an effort to help Óttar, as well as in stanzas 6 through 7, where Valhalla is mentioned again during a dispute between the two.
In the Poetic Edda, Víðarr is mentioned in the poems Völuspá, Vafthrúdnismál, Grímnismál, and Lokasenna.
In the Poetic Edda, the tree is mentioned in the three poems Völuspá, Hávamál, and Grímnismál.
High provides more information about Urðarbrunnr, cites a stanza from Völuspá in support, and adds that dew falls from Yggdrasil to the earth, explaining that " this is what people call honeydew, and from it bees feed ".
Further into the chapter, the stanza in Völuspá that details this sequence is cited.
Larrington points to a connection between the primordial figure of Mímir and Yggdrasil in the poem Völuspá, and theorizes that " it is possible that Hoddmimir is another name for Mimir, and that the two survivors hide in Yggdrasill.
The name is taken from the same source as all the other Dwarf names ( save Balin ) in The Hobbit: the " Catalogue of Dwarves " in the Völuspá.
Völuspá is found in the Codex Regius manuscript ( ca.
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" In chapter 51, the above mentioned Völuspá stanza is quoted.
Simek states that Hlín is likely simply another name for Frigg, and that Snorri " misunderstood her to be a goddess in her own right in his reading of the Völuspá stanza.
" John Lindow observes that if Hlín is indeed Frigg, then this means that Hlín's " second sorrow " in Völuspá is the death of Odin, the first being the death of Baldr.

Völuspá and first
Völuspá, the first poem of the work, mentions many of the features and characters of Asgard portrayed by Snorri, such as Yggdrasil and Iðavöllr.
Some scholars have proposed that the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá may contain an account of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, as having been created by dwarfs.
* Odin had two brothers, Vili and( or Lodur and Hoenir according to Völuspá ), numbering three sons of Borr who created the world and gave life to the first human beings.
In Völuspá, at the creation of the first human beings, Ask and Embla, Hœnir and Lóðurr help Odin.
The identification of Rígr with Heimdall is supported by his characterization as an ancestor, or kinsman, of humankind in the first two lines of the Eddic poem Völuspá :'
In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá he is assigned a role in animating the first humans, but apart from that he is hardly ever mentioned, and remains obscure.
In the Poetic Edda the name Lóðurr occurs only once ; in Völuspá, where the gods animate the first humans.
In stanza 9 of Völuspá, the first poem of the Poetic Edda, Brimir and Blain are both mentioned as alternate names for Ymir:

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