English Explanatory Dictionary

Völuspá

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The Prophecy of the Vǫlva; the first poem of the Poetic Edda.

Word forms

Völuspá

Etymology

From Old Norse Vǫluspá, from vǫlu, genitive of vǫlva (“truth-sayer, staff-carrier, prophetess”), from vǫlr (“rounded staff”) (cognate with the Gothic walus, Old English wala, walu, Old Frisian walu), from Proto-Germanic *waluz (“staff, stick”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”).

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