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"Simek (2007:122).) is a

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who lives in

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. In the ''

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'' poem ''

Völuspá ''Vǫluspá'' (also ''Völuspá'', ''Vǫlospá'' or ''Vǫluspǫ́''; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress'; reconstructed Old Norse: ) is the best known poem of the ''Poetic Edda''. It tells the story of the creation of the world and ...

'', Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of

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. The other two roosters are Fjalar in the wood Gálgviðr, and an unnamed soot-red rooster in Hel:

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is the world tree Yggdrasil and that the bird at the top is Gullinkambi.Schön (2004:50).

In popular culture

Gullinkambi is referenced in the son
"Gullinkambi's Return"
b
The Venetia Fair
Gullinkambi is the ringleader.

Notes

References

* Bellows, Henry Adams (Trans.) (1936). ''The Poetic Edda''.

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. * Schön, Ebbe (2004). ''Asa-Tors Hammare, Gudar och Jättar i tro och Tradition''. Fält & Hässler, Värnamo. * Simek, Rudolf (2007) translated by Angela Hall. ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology''. D.S. Brewer. * Thorpe, Benjamin (Trans.) (1866). ''Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: The Edda of Sæmund the Learned''. Part I. London: Trübner & Co. Birds in Norse mythology Mythological galliforms {{norse-myth-stub