Sigurboði - Hyndluljóð Icelandic + English Lyrics (Skaldic Poetry & Norse Mythology)

The goddess Freyja meets the völva Hyndla and they ride together towards Valhalla. Freyja rides on her boar Hildisvíni and Hyndla on a wolf. Their mission is to find out the pedigree of Óttarr so that he can touch his inheritance, and the lay consists mostly of Hyndla reciting a number of names from Óttarr’s ancestry. The poem may be a twelfth-century work, through Bellows believed the material of which the poem was compounded must have been older.   Lyrics: Vaki mær meyja, vaki mín vina. Þórr mun hon blóta, þess mun hon biðja. Flá ertu, Freyja, er þú freistar mín. Dulin ertu, Hyndla, draums ætlak þér Nú láttu forna niðja talða ok upp bornar ættir manna: hvat ek Skjöldunga, hvat ek Skilfinga, hvat er Öðlinga, hvat er Ylfinga, hvat er höldborit, hvat er hersborit mest manna val und M