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 ).

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 ( Old Norse Vǫluspá, Prophecy of the Völva ( Seeress ); Modern Icelandic, reconstructed Old Norse ) is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda.

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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.

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 addition, Göndul appears within the valkyrie list in the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, in both of the two Nafnaþulur lists found in the Prose Edda, and among the valkyries listed in Darraðarljóð.

In the Poetic Edda, Naglfar is solely mentioned in two stanzas found in the poem Völuspá.

In the Poetic Edda, Angrboða is mentioned only in Völuspá hin skamma ( found in Hyndluljóð ) as the mother of Fenrir by Loki.

For example, Billing is listed as a dwarf name in the Hauksbók manuscript version of Völuspá and is found in a kenning for poetry: " cup of the son of Billing.

* Völuspá Sophus Bugge's edition and commentary with manuscript texts

* Völuspá Eysteinn Björnsson's edition with manuscript texts

Since Rígsþula is only preserved in a 14th-century manuscript, it is also plausible that the prose introduction was added by the compiler to conform it to the opening of Völuspá.

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Völuspá, the first poem of the work, mentions many of the features and characters of Asgard portrayed by Snorri, such as Yggdrasil and Iðavöllr.

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.

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.

High follows this prose description by citing various quotes from Völuspá in support, some of which mention Fenrir.

Völuspá contains a stanza that mentions Freyja, referring to her as " Óð's girl "; Freyja being the wife of her husband, Óðr.

According to Snorri Sturluson's interpretation of the Völuspá, the three most important norns, Urðr ( Wyrd ), Verðandi and Skuld come out from a hall standing at the Well of Urðr ( well of fate ) and they draw water from the well and take sand that lies around it, which they pour over Yggdrasill so that its branches will not rot.

In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, references to Ragnarök begin from stanza 40 until 58, with the rest of the poem describing the aftermath.

The Völuspá hin skamma section of Hyndluljóð says that Loki produced " the wolf " with Angrboða, produced Sleipnir with Svaðilfari, and thirdly " one monster that was thought the most baleful, who was descended from Býleistr's brother.

The names of Gandalf and all but one of the thirteen dwarves were taken directly from the poem Völuspá of the Poetic Edda.

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 Poetic Edda poem Völuspá details that the dwarfs were the product of the primordial blood of the being Brimir and the bones of Bláinn.