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Draupnir

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Odin’s gold ring in Norse story that drips further rings. Not the generic ring, and not a later fairy-ring token.

Norse tradition

  • Draupnir appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning places Draupnir, the dripping gold ring, on Baldr’s pyre. A named multiplying ring of that prose, not Andvaranaut and not the generic ring node.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

  • Draupnir is sacred to Odin.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Draupnir as Odin’s dripping gold ring. A named ring of that god, not Andvaranaut, and not a generic ring.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    sacred to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.