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InNorse mythology,Gálgviðr (Old Norse "gallows-wood") is a forest inJotunheim, land of thejötnar, from which the rooster Fjalar is foretold to begin crowing during the onset ofRagnarok.
According to stanza 42 of the poemVöluspá from thePoetic Edda:
- He sat on the mound and plucked his harp
- the herdsman of the giantess, cheerfulEggther
- a rooster crowed in Gallows-wood
- that bright-red cockerel who is called Fialar
- — Larrington trans.
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