The Sólarljóð (The Song of the Sun) is an Old Norse poem, written in Iceland ca 1200.
It is written in the traditional metric style of the Poetic Edda, but with content from Christian visionary poems.
In 82[1] ljóðaháttr stanzas it gives a narrative, in which a deceased father is addressing his son from another world.
The next section, stanzas 57–80, describes his impressions of Hell and Heaven, often compared to The Divine Comedy.
[3] Though written in the traditional metric style of the old Norse religious and wisdom poetry, the poem draws heavily on inspiration from European medieval visionary literature and the metaphors of contemporary Christian literature.