Völuspá: The Vision of the Witch by Mathias Nordvig.

Translated by Mathias Nordvigart by Rim Baudeyintroduction Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen Edited by Joseph S. Hopkins Second edition: limited to 600 hand-numbered copies Völuspá is the single most celebrated and discussed poem among all those that survive in Old Norse, the language of the Viking-Age Scandinavians. In the poem, the god Odin raises a highly respected witch-like figure from the dead so that she may provide him with wisdom and prophecy. The witch presents him with an overview of the cosmos, his fate, and a prediction of social collapse, environmental devastation, and war (Ragnarok). She foresees that a green and renewed world will arise thereafter.