 The earliest known Norse literary mentions of a harp or lyre date to the Eddic poem "Völuspá", though not as a bowed instrument.However, visual representations from iconography show Gunnar charming the snakes in the snake pit with a "harpa" and a stone carving at the Trondheim Cathedral of Norway shows a musician playing a bowed lyre.In Nordic countries the bowed lyre (as opposed to the plucked harp) has continued in Finland where it is called "jouhikantele" and Estonia where it is called the "talharpa".