Norse mythology Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia, and into the Nordic folklore of the modern per ...

, Glær or

Glenr In Norse mythology, Glenr (Old Norse" , "opening in the clouds"Simek (2007:113).) is the husband of the goddess Sól, who drives the horses of the sun across the sky. Glenr is also an alternate name for Glær, one of the horses listed among those ...

is a

horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...

listed in both '' Grímnismál'' and ''

Gylfaginning ''Gylfaginning'' (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; c. 20,000 words; 13th century Old Norse pronunciation ) is the first part of the 13th century ''Prose Edda'' after the Prologue. The ''Gylfaginning'' deals with t ...

'' among the steeds ridden by the

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each day when they go to make judgements at Yggdrasil. However, in both poems Glær is not assigned to any specific deity.

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Horses in Norse mythology {{DEFAULTSORT:Glaer