Even Gandálf is there, but whereas he is a wizard in The Hobbit, he is merely one of the listed dwarves in Voluspá. It is in this poem that the list of dwarves’ names appears, so this is where Tolkien got them from, as is fairly well known by hard-core Tolkien fans. A new world emerges from the sea, order is restored, a handful of surviving gods find their old board game in the grass, and a fantastic hall of gold is built for good humans to live in. Disorder and war is brought into the initially idyllic world where the gods happily played their board games in the grass, and as the story plays out, it darkens and we come to realise that we are approaching the end of the world: Ragnarok, when the sun in swallowed, the land is scorched by the fire giant Surt and his army, and finally, the Earth sinks into the sea. However, the gods continually have to battle chaos in the form of the Jotnar, the descendants of the giant Ymir. Inside is Asgard, the realm of gods, and outside it is the realm of giants.
The realm of humans is called Midgard, or Middle Earth, as Tolkien also calls his earth. Dwarves and humans are created and live in their respective realms. She tells how the Earth was created out of the body of a primordial giant named Ymir, and how Odin and the other gods then brought order to the chaotic cosmos.
The name Voluspá means “the prophecy of the sibyl”, and in the poem a “Volva” – the Norse counterpart to a sibyl – describes her visions of the beginning and end of the world. It belongs to the 13 th century “Poetic Edda” collection from Iceland, but the poems in this collection are likely to have lived in the oral tradition for many centuries before they were written down. The poem is so old that no-one knows precisely how old it is. Thorin Oakenshield, Dvalin, Bifur, Bofur, Bömbur, Nóri, Óinn, Thrór and Thrain, Fíli, Kíli, and Durin's folk – does this list sound familiar?įrom The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, did you say? No, actually, what I had in mind was the ancient poem Voluspá.
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