-
ensue which contain names of dwarves. This section,
sometimes called "
Dvergatal" ("Catalogue of Dwarfs"), is
usually considered an
interpolation and sometimes...
- [citation needed] In the 13th century's
Poetic Edda (Völuspá 12), the
Dvergatal lists Reginn as a
dvergr (dwarf).
Among the
heroic lays of the Poetic...
-
dwarfs recorded in the
Dvergatal section of Völuspá,
which include Álfr ('Elf'), Gandálfr ('Wand-elf'), Vindálf ('Wind-elf').
Dvergatal further lists Yngvi...
- or
merged with
other poems. For example,
stanzas 9–16 of Völuspá, the "
Dvergatal" or "Roster of Dwarfs", is
considered by some
scholars to be an interpolation...
-
Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old
Norse "Catalogue of Dwarves" (
Dvergatal) in the Völuspá. As a
wizard and the
bearer of one of the
Three Rings...
-
Tolkien took the name "Gandalf" from the Old
Norse "Catalogue of Dwarves" (
Dvergatal) in the Völuspá; its
meaning in that
language is "staff-elf". Originally...
-
price to pay for Gandalf's help.
Tolkien adopted Thorin's
names from the
Dvergatal, the list of Dwarves, in the Old
Norse poem "Völuspá",
which is part of...
- Arnórr jarlaskáld. The four
dwarfs are
listed in the
section of Völuspá,
Dvergatal.
Scholars have
proposed that Austri, Vestri, Norðri and Suðri are depicted...
- "obstinate person", and a name
found in the
Norse list of Dwarf-names, the
Dvergatal in the Völuspá.
Tolkien took it for the name, Thráin, of two of Thorin...
- Dvalinn, Bláin, Dain, Nain, Þorin, Eikinskialdi, and Gandálfr in the
Dvergatal, the list of
Dwarves in the Völuspá
within the
Poetic Edda. Hodge, James...
