Gullinkambi


In Norse mythology, Gullinkambi is a rooster who lives in Valhalla. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of Ragnarök. The other two roosters are Fjalar in the wood Gálgviðr, and an unnamed soot-red rooster in Hel:


It has been suggested that the central tree depicted in the Överhogdal tapestries is the world tree Yggdrasil and that the bird at the top is Gullinkambi.

In popular culture

Gullinkambi is referenced in the song by . Gullinkambi is the ringleader.
In the board game Champions of Midgard, designed by Ole Steiness and published by Grey Fox Games, Gullinkambi may ferry a player's viking warriors into battle should they provide him a sufficient offering.