Bjoern Vernhardsson

Voeluspa; The Holy Land in the North East Bjoern Vernhardsson

In this text the author is focuses attention to how well the prophecy in Völuspá relates to the Pre-Christian and Early-Christian society in the North East of England. The poem reveals how this society was organized and how it developed. This paper is in part philosophical and socio-psychological in exploring how the society might have evolved. It also pays attention to how well the description given in the poem can be established in place names and other monuments that have been discovered or might be expected to be found at later dates. The author will trace information to found in the North East such as churches, castles and other sites that fit to the description given in Völuspá and other old poems from Iceland such as Grímnismál in Snorri's Edda.