Völuspánatt
Field of Ash
natt is norweigean for night.
In popular culture[edit]
Stanzas from Völuspa are paraphrased in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. In the film, the character Aragorn makes a speech before battle, saying "A day may come, when the courage of men fails, and we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship — but that is not this day! A hour of wolves, and shattered shields, as the age of Men comes crashing down — but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear, on this good earth, I bid you STAND! MEN! OF THE WEST!" - this is a paraphrasing of Verse 45 of Voluspa: "Axe-time, sword-time, | shields are sundered, | Wind-time, wolf-time, | ere the world falls; | Nor ever shall men | each other spare."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173081
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