Draupnir

Old Norse: Draupnir
Meaning: "Dropper"

 

1. a ring
2. a dwarf


1.
Draupnir was Odin's golden ring, which could multiplicate itself every ninth night.

It was made by the dwarfs Sindri and Brokk.

Odin laid it on Baldr's pyre when the latter's corpse was burned.

Later Baldr sent it back to Odin.


2.
The dwarf Draupnir was listed by the Volva.

 

Poetic Edda: Völuspá

 

 

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