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...

from Völuspá and elaborates extensively in prose on the information there, though some of this information conflicts with that provided in Völuspá. In...

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...

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...

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")...

accompanied by ravens, and sometimes connected to swans. The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda...

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...

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)...

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...

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...