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Voluspa Bolungarvik

Bolungarvík

Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda.

 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.

 It is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. The poem is preserved whole in the Codex Regius and Hauksbók manuscripts while parts of it are quoted in the Prose Edda.