
Ifayile No. 008 kwa-446
The völva of Baldrs draumar
Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Vegtamskviða seeress
In the Eddic poem Baldrs draumar the god Odin wakes a dead prophetess from her grave to learn his son's fate. She tells him what he asks and sends him away once she realises who he is. The poem shows Odin as a god who can raise the dead. It presents the buried corpse as a store of knowledge that the living can force open.1
Yabhalwa okokuqala
950
The Eddic poem Baldrs draumar, dated by Bellows to about the mid-10th century and preserved in the manuscript AM 748 I 4toImvelaphi
Norse
IIceland, INorwayOko kuyibangelayo
Ubugqwirha
Odin raises her from her grave to answer his questions.Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
A seeress long buried, called up by the god's necromancy.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Phantse ayihambi
She is raised from her grave in Hel's realm and made to speak.Ubukrelekrele
Ikrelekrele
Yavela nini okokuqala?
The Eddic poem Baldrs draumar, dated by Bellows to about the mid-10th century and preserved in the manuscript AM 748 I 4to
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