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===''Poetic Edda''===
In the ''Poetic Edda'' poem ''[[Völuspá]]'', Dvalinn is mentioned as a name in the listing of dwarves, and again in a later stanza as a leader taking a host of dwarfs from the mountains to find a new dwelling place:

:"The rocks they left, and through wet lands
:They sought a home, in the fields of sand"

In ''[[Hávamál]]'', Dvalinn is said to have introduced the writing of [[Runic alphabet|runes]] to the dwarfs, as [[Dáinn (Norse dwarf)|Dáinn]] had done for the [[Álfar|elves]], [[Odin|Óðinn]] for the [[Æsir|gods]], and Asvið for the [[Jötunn|jötnar]].

In ''[[Alvíssmál]]'', a kenning for the sun is listed as the "deceiver of Dvalinn", referring to the sun's power of turning dwarfs into stone, or “Dvalinn’s toy”, possibly imagining the sun as gold, an element that dwarfs often work with. In [[skaldic poetry]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?if=default&table=verses&id=65&val=|title=Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages|publisher=[[University of Aberdeen]]|access-date=May 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410081929/http://www.skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/db.php?if=default&table=verses&id=65&val=|archive-date=April 10, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Dvalinn's drink" is used as a kenning for poetry, since the [[mead of poetry]] was originally created by the dwarfs.

In ''[[Fáfnismál]]'', during a discussion between [[Sigurd]] and [[Fafnir]] concerning the minor [[Norns]] (apart from the three great Norns), those who govern the lives and destinies of dwarfs are also known as "Dvalinn's daughters".