![]() ![]() ![]() The order and number of the stanzas varies in these sources. 1220, oldest extant manuscript dates from ca. 1334), and many of its stanzas are quoted or paraphrased in the Prose Edda (composed ca. ![]() 1270) and in Haukr Erlendsson's Hauksbók Codex (ca. Völuspá is found in the Icelandic Codex Regius manuscript (ca. The poem is preserved whole in the Codex Regius and Hauksbók manuscripts while parts of it are quoted in the Prose Edda. It is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end and subsequent rebirth, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́ Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. " Odin and the Völva" (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. ![]()
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