Published in Mulier aut Femina. Idealism or reality of women in the Middle Ages

Keywords: Keywords: Hávamál, Medieval Scandinavia, Mythology, Poetic Edda.

Present in the manuscript of the Poetic Edda, the poem Hávamál is one of the most famous texts of the Old Norse literature. With elements which allude the mythological past of northern Europe, social practices of conduct and signs of pre-Christian religiosity. With this annotated translation done from the original idiom to Portuguese we intend to shed some new light upon this work to the modern public, whether to the scholar as to those that are taking your first contact with the poem.