The Saga of Vanadís, Völva and Valkyrja

Vituð ér enn –eða hvað? - the resounding question of the völva
Geyr nú Garmr mjök
fyr Gnipahelli
festr mun slitna
ok Freki renna;
fjölð veit ek fræða,
fram sé ég lengra
um ragna rök
römm sigtíva.
Völuspá
The dog fervently barks
Before the grand cave
the fetters will be torn
and the wolf will run;
I know much more
I see far and further
of the powerful örlög
of the great goð.
This stanza is a repeated theme in Völuspá, joined with the völva’s question Vituð
ér enn, - eða hvað? (Do you know yet, - or what?). This recurrent message of where we
are heading, along with the continuing expression of the völva’s dismay of Óðinn’s
blindness, should have woke the descendants of the goð from their waking sleep. But it
didn’t. For a thousand years and more she has sent her message across the world of
humans, but we have given away our hearing as well as our eyesight, thrown those
important abilities away. Never have we been closer to Ragnarök, the end of the world of
humans and the goð we have chosen. In the last battle she sees the total destruction:
Sól tér sortna,
sígr fold í mar,
hverfa af himni
heiðar stjörnur;
geisar eimi
ok aldrnari,
leikr hár hiti
við himin sjalfan.
Völuspá, st. 57
Sun will blacken,
earth sinks into sea,
shining stars
from heaven vanish;
Furious flames
in the towering tree;
the raging heat
reaches heaven.
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