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Völuspá
The seeress’s poem of creation, gods, and Ragnarök in the Poetic Edda. Not ragnarok as a free episode label alone, and not the whole Poetic Edda corpus.
Also known as Voluspa · The Seeress’s Prophecy
Norse tradition
Völuspá appears in Norse tradition.
Völuspá is the seeress’s creation-and-ending poem preserved in the Poetic Edda corpus. A named Norse poem in that tradition’s verse shelf, not ragnarok as a free episode label alone and not the whole Poetic Edda under one poem id.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Völuspá appears in Poetic Edda.
Völuspá is preserved as a poem inside the Poetic Edda collection. A named poem’s presence in that corpus, not a claim that Völuspá is the whole Edda and not ragnarok as a free label.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Völuspá is historically related to Gylfaginning.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning retells and leans on Völuspá’s cosmogony and Ragnarök speech inside its prose frame. A named historical transmission between verse lay and prose handbook, not voluspa→appears_in→poetic-edda as corpus seat alone and not identity of the two texts.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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sources
- Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.