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    Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story...
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    Ragnarök (section Völuspá)
    from Völuspá and elaborates extensively in prose on the information there, though some of this information conflicts with that provided in Völuspá. In...
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  • Völuspá hin skamma (Old Norse: 'The Short Völuspá) is an Old Norse poem which survives as a handful of stanzas in Hyndluljóð, in the Poetic Edda, and...
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  • monsters born of Loki and a jötunn may be of greater age. In Völuspá hin skamma (Short Völuspá; a poem of Hyndluljóð), Angrboða is mentioned as the mate...
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    accompanied by ravens, and sometimes connected to swans. The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda...
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  • of Níðhǫggr seems to come from two of the Eddic poems: Grímnismál and Völuspá. Later in Skáldskaparmál, Snorri includes Níðhǫggr in a list of various...
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    Hati's mother is the giantess, not named but mentioned in the Eddic poem "Völuspá", who dwells to the east of Midgard in the forest of Járnviðr ("Ironwood")...
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    Yggdrasil (section Völuspá)
    is mentioned in the three poems Völuspá, Hávamál and Grímnismál. In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva (a shamanic seeress)...
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    Lóðurr (section Völuspá)
    occurs only once; in Völuspá, where the gods animate the first humans. The precise meaning of these strophes and their context in Völuspá is debated. Most...
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    in six poems; Völuspá, Grímnismál, Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Rígsþula, and Hrafnagaldr Óðins. Heimdall is mentioned three times in Völuspá. In the first...
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  • Æsir. He is mentioned in Vǫluspá as one of the three gods (along with Odin and Lóðurr) that created the first humans. In Völuspá, at the creation of the...
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    mentioned in four poems in the Poetic Edda; Völuspá, Vafþrúðnismál, Grímnismál, and Hyndluljóð. In Völuspá, in which an undead völva imparts knowledge...
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    and Náströnd is pronounced [ˈnauˌstrœnt]. The Völuspá says: Snorri Sturluson quotes this part of Völuspá in the Gylfaginning section of his Prose Edda...
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    (The Poem of Hyndla, The Lay of Hyndla, The Song of Hyndla) Völuspá in skamma (The short Völuspá, The Short Seeress' Prophecy, Short Prophecy of the Seeress)...
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    located beneath a root in Niflheim, and Urðarbrunnr. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva recounts to Odin that she knows that Odin once placed one of his...
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  • Voluspa is the debut album by American electronic duo The Golden Filter, released in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2010 by Brille Records. Two singles...
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    Verðandi (section Völuspá)
    gerund form. She appears in the following verse from the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, along with Urðr and Skuld: Orchard (1997:174). Orchard (1997:169). Orchard...
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    19 February 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2005. "Gylfaginning 21–30". Völuspávoluspa.org. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January...
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  • Borr (section Völuspá)
    theories about the figure. Borr is mentioned in the fourth verse of the Völuspá, a poem contained in the Poetic Edda, and in the sixth chapter of Gylfaginning...
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    "Nine Worlds". According to the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the Nine Worlds surround the tree Yggdrasil. As recalled by a dead völva...
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    who were also formed from trees." In stanza 17 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the seeress reciting the poem states that Hœnir, Lóðurr and Odin once...
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    Freyr (section Völuspá)
    Prose Edda while each collection has some details not found in the other. Völuspá, the best known of the Eddic poems, describes the final confrontation between...
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    Adams Bellows (1936), at Sacred Texts. Völuspá Guðni Jónsson's edition of the text with normalized spelling. Völuspá in translation by Henry Adams Bellows...
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    fates of people. Urðr is attested in stanza 20 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá and the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning. Urðr is together with the other Norns...
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    Two Norse dwarfs as depicted in a 19th-century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá (1895) by Lorenz Frølich...
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    beginning and end of the world is told in Völuspá, the first and best known poem in the Poetic Edda. The seeress in Völuspá tells of how the world began with...
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  • foretold to live. It is mentioned in the Prose Edda and the Eddic poem "Völuspá" and described as the most beautiful place in Asgard, more beautiful than...
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    groups are those concerning the Æsir-Vanir war, which are contained within Völuspá, Ynglinga saga and Skáldskaparmál. This conflict between the gods occurred...
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    eyes made into stars. Ymir, the progenitor of the jötnar. In a stanza of Völuspá hin skamma (found in the poem "Hyndluljóð") all jötnar descend from Ymir...
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    Voluspa Jarpa Saldías (Rancagua, 1971) is a Chilean painter and visual artist of the 1990s who has been involved in painting, installations, and sculpture...
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