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of 21:53, 3 December 2012 Völuspá ("Prophecy of the Seeress") is
the first poem of the Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse
poems. J.R.R. Tolkien was influenced greatly by the saga, and
Christopher Tolkien even suggests that "those Dwarf-names in The
Hobbit provided the whole starting-point for the Mannish
languages in Middle-earth" In particular almost all of the names
of the dwarves of Middle-earth, as well as Gandalf's, are taken
from a section of the Völuspá called the Dvergatal (the
"Catalogue of Dwarves").[note 1] The Dvergatal is contained in
stanzas 10–16: - ↑ The Dvergatal is now considered a later
interpolation, and is often omitted from newer editions of
Völuspá. - ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The
Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Appendix on Languages", Commentary
to §58 - ↑ Charles B. Noad, "Review: The Peoples of Middle-earth
(The History of Middle-earth XII)" at Tolkiensociety.org. See
section "Dwarvish and Mannish Re