Nice to see you made it here Glenna! *grins* Now on to some thoughts on the Voluspa.

The Voluspa is a long poem contained within the collection of Old Icelandic poetry known as the Poetic Edda.

It was written somewhere about 1000 BCE it "marks the end of the heathen era and the start of the the Christian age. That being so, it is the single best source for understanding the views of the Pagan Norse speaking peoples concerning the beginning of the world and of the doom of the gods. In fact, it was to discover the secrets of the beginning and end, that Odin rode down into Hel's realm and called up from her sleep an Etin seeress. The poem, itself, is the text of her speech. (ed. note: The Feri folk lived underground so there was some confusion among the Aesr about the Feris being dead souls. Feris, being Feris, were amused by the confusion.) "

http://www.feri.com/dawn/voluspa.html