Talk:Völuspá

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The Voluspa is hard to understand.

I agree to a certain extent. The main problem is that the narrator assumed a lot of knowledge about names etcetera to be common knowledge. This makes it for a modern person hard to read as he knows not all the names and whether they are significant or not. Shinobu (talk) 14:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Dwarves vs. Lord of the Rings

I note that the list of visiting dwarves in Lord of the Rings strongly parallels the list of dwarves in the Völuspá. Shinobu (talk) 14:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's because that's where Tolkien got them from. No surprise - he was a scholar of English and Scandinavian literature after all. --Gwern (contribs) 03:42 24 November 2007 (GMT)