Völuspá is the best known poem of a collection of poems in what culture?
Völuspá Völuspá (Old Norse Vǫluspá or Vǫluspǫ́, "Prophecy of the Völva (Seeress)"; reconstructed Old Norse ] , Modern Icelandic ] ) is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end, related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. It is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. Henry Adam Bellows proposed a 10th-century dating and authorship by a pagan Icelander with knowledge of Christianity. He also assumes the early hearers would have been very familiar with the "story" of the poem and not in need of an explanation.
Ju Song Ju Song () is a Classical Chinese poem which has been preserved in the "Nine Pieces" ("Jiu Zhang") section of the ancient Chinese poetry anthology, the "Chu ci", or "The Songs of Chu". The poem has been translated into English by David Hawkes as "In Praise of the Orange-Tree". In the poem, the orange-tree is used as a metaphor for certain human qualities, such as "steadfastness". Hawkes explains this by the tradition that this type of orange tree is supposed to grow naturally only in the part of China of which the ancient land of Chu was included in (as opposed to the northern plain). The particular orange-tree ("ju") mentioned is what David Hawkes calls ""citrus nobilis""; but, this type of orange (or, its hybrids) is now usually botanically referred to as "Citrus reticulata", or else by the common name of "mandarin orange".