- Galgvid
In
Norse mythology , Gálgviðr or Galgvid ("Gallows Wood") is a forest inJotunheim , land of the giants, from which the roosterFjalar will begin crowing during the onset ofRagnarok .According to stanza 42 of the poem "
Völuspá " from the "Poetic Edda "::"He sat on the mound and plucked his harp:the herdsman of the giantess, cheerful
Eggther :a rooster crowed in Gallows-wood:that bright-red cockerel who is called Fialar":::— Larrington trans.References
*Larrington, Carolyne (transl.) (1996). "The Poetic Edda".
Oxford World's Classics . ISBN 0-19-283946-2.ee also
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Jarnvid
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