Gálgviðr
Norse mythical forest / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Norse mythology, Gálgviðr (Old Norse "gallows-wood") is a forest in Jotunheim, land of the jötnar, from which the rooster Fjalar is foretold to begin crowing during the onset of Ragnarok.
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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.