Voluspa hin skamma ( Old Norse : 'The Short Voluspa ) ^[1] is an Old Norse poem which survives as a handful of stanzas in Hyndluljoð , in the Poetic Edda , and as one stanza in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . The name of the poem is only known due to Snorri's citation of it in Gylfaginning (chapter 5):

The additional stanzas that remain appear in Hyndluljoð . In his translation of Hyndluljoð , Henry Adams Bellows comments that the preserved fragment of Voluspa hin skamma shows that it was a "late and very inferior imitation of the great Voluspo ", and he dates it to the twelfth century. He further suggests that its appearance in Hyndluljoð is due to the blunder of a copyist who confused the two poems, and he does not consider them to be of any great value either as poetry or as mythology.

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Bibliography [ edit ]

• Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend . Cassell. ISBN   978-0-304-34520-5 .

Further reading [ edit ]

• Hyndluljoth , Translation and commentary by Henry Adams Bellows
• Voluspa in skamma , Guðni Jonsson 's edition with normalized spelling
• The Prose Edda , translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur , at sacred-texts.com
• Gylfaginning , Old Norse text, Guðni Jonsson's edition.

External links [ edit ]

• MyNDIR (My Norse Digital Image Repository) Illustrations of Voluspa En Skamma from manuscripts and early print books.