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Quotation from The Poetic Edda by Anonymous (Old Norse)

“Hearing I ask | from the holy races, From Heimdall’s sons, | both high and low;”

Anonymous (Old Norse) (spoken by The Volva)

The Poetic Edda, Voluspo, stanza 1, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923)

Portrait of Anonymous (Old Norse)

The seeress opens the first poem of the collection by demanding silence from all the races of men before she tells what she remembers.

Citation: "Hearing I ask | from the holy races, From Heimdall’s sons, | both high and low;" — Anonymous (Old Norse), The Poetic Edda, Voluspo, stanza 1, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (1923). (id poetic-edda-q1)

Portrait: Codex Regius of Eddaic Poems, Unknown author, Public domain.

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