Book 1999
The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Norse Mythology
- Translations into English
- Old Norse poetry
- Poetry
- Edda saemundar
- Eddas
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
The Seeress's Prophecy (Voluspa), composed mainly in the fornyrdislag meter, is recited by a seeress who can remember before the beginning of the world and who can see as far ahead as after Ragnarok-the Doom of the Gods.