Dreams. Among the visions which the Völva sees and describes in Völuspá is Baldr's death. In stanza 32, the Völva says she saw the fate of Baldr "the...
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lived there. Dames Blanches (White Ladies of French mythology, similar) Völva Weiße Frauen (White Women of German mythology, similar) White Goddess (book...
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þáttr and Hrólfs saga kraka, the norns appear to have been synonymous with völvas (witches, female shamans). In Norna-Gests þáttr, where they arrive at the...
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is mentioned twice in the poem Völuspá, where a völva divulges information to the god Odin. The völva says that, during Ragnarök, Surtr will come from...
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Lokasenna, Þrymskviða, Alvíssmál, and Hyndluljóð. In the poem Völuspá, a dead völva recounts the history of the universe and foretells the future to the disguised...
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historical figure who Christianized Norway and Iceland in the 10th Century. A Völva was buried c. 1000 with considerable splendour in Hagebyhöga in Östergötland...
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Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, reconstructed by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie DMP · 343 344 Desiderata 1892 M Désirée Clary (1777–1860), Queen of Sweden...
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S2CID 164186249. Krause, Arnulf (2010). Reclams Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie und Heldensage. Reclam. ISBN 978-3-15-010778-2. Phelpstead, Carl, ed....
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ISBN 978-0-8020-9843-6. Krause, Arnulf (2010). Reclams Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie und Heldensage. Reclam. ISBN 978-3-15-010778-2. Phelpstead, Carl, ed....
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ISBN 978-0-8020-9843-6. Krause, Arnulf (2010). Reclams Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie und Heldensage. Reclam. ISBN 978-3-15-010778-2. Kroesen, Riti (1987)....
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