InNorse mythology,Gastropnir was in the realm ofMenglöð.^[1]

Gastropnir is featured inFjölsvinnsmál, asSvipdag conducts his mission to reach Menglöð. Svipdag walking up to the gate in the wall where he addresses a watchman called Fjölsviður. In the exchange between the two, Svipdagr asks what the wall is called. Fjolsvith replies that it is called Gastropnir and adds that he built it out of Leirbrimir's limbs.^[2]

• The Elder or Poetic Edda bySaemund Sigfusson with illustrations byW.G. Collingwood (originally published byNorroena Society, 1907; re-published by ADP Gauntlet, 2014, with Olive Bray, translator)ISBN 978-0692200650

• Germanic MythologyFjölsvinnsmál
• The Lay of Fjolsvith:FjolsvinnsmalArchived 2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine

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