- Hyndluljóð
"Hyndluljóð" or "Lay of Hyndla" is an Old Norse poem often considered a part of the "
Poetic Edda ". It is only preserved in its entirety in "Flateyjarbók " but some stanzas are also quoted in the "Prose Edda " where they are said to come from "Völuspá hin skamma ".In the poem, the goddess
Freyja meets thevölva Hyndla and they ride together towardsValhalla . Freyja rides on her boarHildisvíni and Hyndla on a wolf. Their mission is to find out thepedigree of Óttarr so that he can touch his inheritance, and the lay consists mostly of Hyndla reciting a number of names from Óttarr's ancestry. The poem may be a twelfth century work.References
English translations
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe15.htm Hyndluljoth] Translation and commentary by Henry A. Bellows
* [http://www.northvegr.org/lore/poetic2/015_01.php Hyndlulióð] Translation byBenjamin Thorpe
* [http://home.earthlink.net/~wodensharrow/hyndluljodh.html Hyndluljóð] Translation byW. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor
* [http://www.northvegr.org/lore/poetic3/026.php The Song of Hyndla] Translation by A. S. CottleOld Norse editions
* [http://etext.old.no/Bugge/hyndlu.html Hyndluljóð]
Sophus Bugge 's edition of the manuscript text
* [http://www.heimskringla.no/original/edda/hyndluljod.php Hyndluljóð] Guðni Jónsson's edition with normalized spelling
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