animalSquirrelBeings · NatureSquirrel as an animal people have named and used. Preparation, Agility, Foresight — one living kind, not a single symbol.Norse traditionSquirrel appears in Norse tradition.Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Ratatoskr as the squirrel that runs the ash carrying messages between eagle and Nidhogg. A named squirrel in that prose, not a generic rodent dump and not the eagle or serpent as the message parties.from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220appears in · sourced · documentedsourcesGylfaginning · Snorri SturlusonSnorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.