- of monsters. She is only
mentioned once in the
Poetic Edda (Völuspá hin
skamma) as the
mother of
Fenrir by Loki. The
Prose Edda (Gyl****inning) describes...
- "the one
making an
unlucky journey" or "unlucky traveler". Völuspá hin
skamma,
contained within Hyndluljóð,
states that Svaðilfari
fathered Sleipnir with...
- 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 as...
- poem
refers to
Heimdallr as the son of nine mothers. The poem Völuspá hin
skamma (contained
within the poem Hyndluljóð,
often considered a part of the Poetic...
-
quoted in the
Prose Edda,
where they are said to come from Völuspá hin
skamma. Hyndluljóð is
believed to be a
relatively late
Eddic poem,
dating to the...
-
being blamed for an
undesirable situation appears in Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma,
where the
valkyrie Brynhild blames malevolent norns for her long yearning...
-
called a
skamma ("dug-up" area). The idea that this was a pit full of sand is wrong. Sand in the
jumping pit is a
modern invention. The
skamma was simply...
-
Brunhild and
Gudrun being the more
important characters. Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma retells the
story of Sigurd's life from his
arrival at Gunnar's
court to...
- Sigurðarkviða hin
skamma or the
Short Lay of
Sigurd is an Old
Norse poem
belonging to the
heroic poetry of the
Poetic Edda. It is one of the
longest eddic...
- (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)...
