Vilmeið

"Wish-tree." The progenitor of all soothsayers or seers, 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.

Nothing further is known of him.

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