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Voluspo 57 (Bellows)

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The destruction at Ragnarok. Snorri quotes this stanza in the Prose Edda, which is part of why its text is comparatively secure. Two stanzas later the seeress sees a new earth rise, so the poem does not end here.

Facts
Passage
Text
The sun turns black, | earth sinks in the sea, The hot stars down | from heaven are whirled; Fierce grows the steam | and the life-feeding flame, Till fire leaps high | about heaven itself. 1
Reference
Voluspo 57 (Bellows) 1
Reference Scheme
Collection, Book, Section 1
Translation
Translation
The Poetic Edda (Voluspo and other lays) 1
Translator
Henry Adams Bellows 1
Meaning
Theme
the end of the world 1
Cross-Tradition Connections

Concerns

Fenrir, Mythical Creatures

Fenrir is loosed in the stanzas around this one.

Norse Paganism, Religions
Poetic Edda, Other Writings

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Poetic Edda, Other Writings
Source The Poetic EddaAnonymous (Codex Regius)
Sources
1. The Poetic Edda
Anonymous (Codex Regius), The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1923Voluspo 57 (Bellows)View the Source
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