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Gleipnir

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The thin binding that holds Fenrir in Norse story, made of impossible ingredients. Not a generic knot, and not a rope of ordinary husbandry.

Norse tradition

  • Gleipnir appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Gleipnir as the soft binding that holds Fenrir. A named fetter of that prose, not a generic knot and not every later magic-cord.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.