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Gullinbursti

Freyr's boar in Norse mythology

Gullinbursti
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Freyr's boar in Norse mythology

"The third gift — an enormous hammer" (1902) by [[Elmer Boyd Smith]].
Gullinbursti

and Frey, 1901 painting by Johannes Gehrts.]] Gullinbursti (Old Norse), meaning "Gold Mane" or "Golden Bristles") is a boar in Norse mythology.

When Loki had Sif's hair, Freyr's ship Skíðblaðnir, and Odin's spear Gungnir fashioned by the Sons of Ivaldi, he bet his own head with Brokkr that his brother Eitri (Sindri) would not 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 of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

According to Húsdrápa, Freyr rode Gullinbursti to Baldr'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 (Old Norse: meaning "Sharp Tooth" or "Fearsome Tooth") (sometimes anglicized to "Slidrugtanni").

References

References

  1. [http://www.heimskringla.no/wiki/Skáldskaparmál Skáldskaparmál ch. 44]
  2. "Völuspá - Norse and Germanic Lore site with Old Norse / English translations of the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda".
  3. Cleasby, Richard. ''An Icelandic-English Dictionary: Based on the Ms. Collections of the Late Richard Cleasby''. Oxford Clarendon Press 1874. p. 568
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