Hyndluljóð
Sign in to savethumb|right|"Freyja awakes Hyndla" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. thumb|"The Ancestry of Ottar" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hyndluljóð (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Hyndla') is an Old Norse poem often considered a part of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved in its entirety only in Flateyjarbók, but some stanzas are also quoted in the Prose Edda, where they are said to come from Völuspá hin skamma. __NOTOC__ Hyndluljóð is believed to be a relatively late Eddic poem, dating to the second half of the 12th century or later, although including much older traditions, such as that of the 4th c. Gothic king Er
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- English translations
- Old Norse editions
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thumb|right|"Freyja awakes Hyndla" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. thumb|"The Ancestry of Ottar" (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. Hyndluljóð (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Hyndla') is an Old Norse poem often considered a part of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved in its entirety only in Flateyjarbók, but some stanzas are also quoted in the Prose Edda, where they are said to come from Völuspá hin skamma. __NOTOC__ Hyndluljóð is believed to be a relatively late Eddic poem, dating to the second half of the 12th century or later, although including much older traditions, such as that of the 4th c. Gothic king Ermanaric.
In the poem, the goddess Freyja meets the völva Hyndla and they ride together towards Valhalla. Freyja rides on her boar Hildisvíni and Hyndla on a wolf. Their mission is to find out the pedigree 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyndluljóð” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.