Völuspá
The prophecy of the seeress, the opening poem of the Poetic Edda and the Norse myth of the world from beginning to doom.
Core Characteristics
- A dead seeress, woken by Odin, recounts the creation, the fall of Baldr, and Ragnarök itself.
- Preserved in the 13th-century Codex Regius, composed perhaps a century or more earlier.
- Ends not in ruin but in a reborn green world rising from the sea.
Related Concepts & Sources
Norse, Poetic Edda, Prophecy