- Gullinbursti
Gullinbursti (meaning "Gold Mane or Golden Bristles") is a
boar inNorse mythology .When
Loki hadSif 's hair,Freyr 's shipSkíðblaðnir andOdin 's spearGungnir fashioned by theSons of Ivaldi , he bet his own head withBrokkr that his brotherEitri (Sindri) wouldn't have been able to make items to match the quality of those mentioned above.So to make gifts to Freyr, Eitri threw a pig's skin into a furnace as Brokkr worked on the bellows, and together they manufactured the boar Gullinbursti which had bristles in its mane that glowed in the dark.
The story of Gullinbursti's creation is related in the
Skáldskaparmál section ofSnorri Sturluson 'sProse Edda .According to "
Húsdrápa ", Freyr rode Gullinbursti toBaldr 's funeral, while in "Gylfaginning ",Snorri states that Freyr rode to the funeral in a chariot pulled by the boar.The boar is also known as Slíðrugtanni (sometimes Anglicized to "Slidrugtanni").
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