In chapter 13 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, Fenrir is first mentioned in a stanza quoted from Völuspá.

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.

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.

" 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.

* Odin had two brothers, Vili and Vé ( 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:

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 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.

Fenrir is mentioned in three stanzas of the poem Völuspá, and in two stanzas of the poem Vafþrúðnismál.

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 the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Hel's realm is referred to as the " Halls 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 ".

Loki is referenced in two stanzas in Völuspá hin skamma, found within the poem Hyndluljóð.

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

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 ".

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

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.

She appears in the following verse from the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, along with Urðr and Skuld:

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.

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 ").

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.

Two dwarfs as depicted in a 19th century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich

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.

In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Hlín receives a mention regarding the foretold death of the god Odin during the immense battle waged at Ragnarök:

* Völuspá: A treatise on the Eddic poem Völuspá, regarding the poem as a coherent work by one poet.

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

The poem Völuspá mentions Níðhöggr twice.

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.

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

" Rudolf Simek agrees that Hlín seems to appear as another name for Frigg in Völuspá, and that in skaldic poetry Hlín was a well known mythological figure by the 10th century.

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

Scholar Rudolf Simek says that since Óðr appears in a kenning employed by the 11th century skald Einarr Skúlason ( in Skáldskaparmál ) and in the Poetic Edda poems Völuspá and Hyndluljóð, Óðr is not a late invention.

* 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 )

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.

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.

This image is accompanied by runic writings which were taken from Völuspá.