In
Norse mythology, Gastropnir was in the realm of
Menglöð.
Gastropnir is featured in
Fjölsvinnsmál ''Fjölsvinnsmál'' (Old Norse: 'The Lay of Fjölsvinn') is the second of two Old Norse poems commonly published under the title '' Svipdagsmál'' "The Lay of Svipdagr". These poems are found together in several 17th-century paper manuscripts with ' ...
, as
Svipdag
Svipdagr (Old Norse: "sudden day"Orchard (1997:157).) is the hero of the two Old Norse Eddaic poems Grógaldr and Fjölsvinnsmál, which are contained within the body of one work; Svipdagsmál.
Plot
Svipdagr is set a task by his stepmother ...
conducts his mission to reach Menglöð. Svipdag walking up to the gate in the wall where he addresses a watchman called Fjölsviður. In the exchange between the two, Svipdagr asks what the wall is called. Fjolsvith replies that it is called Gastropnir and adds that he built it out of Leirbrimir's limbs.
''Gróugaldur and Fjölsvinnsmál'' (Eysteinn Björnsson, ‘’Svipdagsmál’’ 2001)
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References
Other sources
*''The Elder or Poetic Edda'' by Saemund Sigfusson with illustrations by W.G. Collingwood (originally published by Norroena Society, 1907; re-published by ADP Gauntlet, 2014, with Olive Bray, translator)
External links
Germanic Mythology ''Fjölsvinnsmál''
Locations in Norse mythology
Fictional buildings and structures
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