Viðólf

"Wood-wolf." The progenitor of all sybils or seeresses, according to a stanza in Völuspá hin skamma:

Eru völur allar
frá Viðolfi,
vitkar allir
frá Vilmeiði,
en seiðberendr
frá Svarthöfða,
jötnar allir
frá Ymi komnir.
All the Valas are
from Vidolf,
all the soothsayers
from Vilmeidr,
all the sorcerers
from Svarthöfdi,
all the Jötuns
come from Ymir.

Of Viðólf nothing further is known.

Völuspá hin skamma or Völuspá the Less, survives as seventeen stanzas in the eddic poem Hyndluljóð.

References

Source

  • Völuspá hin skamma, 5.