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Gjallarhorn

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Heimdall’s sounding-horn in Norse story, a signal at the last battle. Not a shofar, and not cornucopia’s plenty-horn.

Norse tradition

  • Gjallarhorn appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning gives Heimdall the Gjallarhorn that will be blown at the world’s ending. A named Norse horn in that prose, not a drinking-horn slogan and not cornucopia.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.