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Naglfar

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The nail-ship of Norse story, built from the dead. Not Skidbladnir the folding-ship, and not a generic boat.

Norse tradition

  • Naglfar appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning has Naglfar, the ship of nails, loose at Ragnarök. A named doom-ship of that prose, not Skíðblaðnir the folding ship.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.