Lay of Hyndla

The Lay of Hyndla or Hyndluljóð is an Old Norse poem of the same type as those in the Poetic Edda, but in corrupted form, and it is only preserved in Flateyjarbók.

In the Lay of Hyndla, the goddess Freya meets the völva Hyndla and they ride together towards Valhalla. Freya rides on her boar Hildisvini and Hyndla on a wolf.

The mission is to find out the pedigree of Ottar so that he can touch his inheritance, and the lay consists mostly of Hyndla reciting a number of names from Ottar's ancestry.