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Alternative Title
Hófvarpnir
Description
27. Hófvarpnir. In the Prose Edda, the horse of Gna, the messenger whom Frigga sent into various worlds on her errands.
Exhibit label:
HOFVARPNIR, THE HORSE OF GNA.
A gift from Elair the Song-Maker.
—"The Book of Elair," in Smith.
Physical Description
This figurine was unavailable at the time of digitization. An imaginative rendering was created by Minuet Curry. In it, a white winged horse rears up on its back legs in a pool of water.
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Mythology, Norse; Romances; Sagas; Scalds and scaldic poetry
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/png
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 27, Hófvarpnir, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
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