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- 1 Hearing I ask from all the tribes,
- greater and lesser, the offspring of Heimdall;*
- Father of the Slain, you wished me well to declare
- living beings’ ancient stories, those I remember from furthest back.
- - Poetic Edda, Voluspa
- (The Seeress’s Prophecy (Voluspa), composed mainly in the fornyrdislag metre, 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. Odin (‘Father of the Slain’ in v. 1) is interrogating the seeress to find out what is to come; her reply moves swiftly and allusively through the history of gods and men. - from the explanatory introductory section introducing Voluspa included with the translation)
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