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In Norse mythology, Gálgviđr or Galgvid ("Gallows Wood") is a forest in Jotunheim, land of the giants, from which the rooster Fjalar will begin crowing during the onset of Ragnarok.
According to stanza 42 of the poem Völuspá from the Poetic Edda:
- "He sat on the mound and plucked his harp
- the herdsman of the giantess, cheerful Eggther
- a rooster crowed in Gallows-wood
- that bright-red cockerel who is called Fialar"
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- - Larrington trans.
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