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Norsery Rhymes from A to Z
Falhófnir , The One with the Fallow Hooves

Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters. This week it’s Falhófnir / Falhofnir, a mythic horse mentioned in the Grímnismál, Gylfaginning, and Skáldskaparmál.

It’s name means in Old Norse, ‘Fallow hooves’, or ‘pale hoofed’, or ‘Hollow footed’. Likely indicating it’s trampling of the grass beneath it’s hooves. And it’s hooves being well used.

It’s one of the named steeds ridden by the Aesir each day to and from the Well of Urdr, at the World Tree Yggdrasil, when they make their tribunals, judgements, or statements of dooms.

Not much else is known about it.

Description

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z
Falhófnir , The One with the Fallow Hooves

Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters. This week it’s Falhófnir / Falhofnir, a mythic horse mentioned in the Grímnismál, Gylfaginning, and Skáldskaparmál.

It’s name means in Old Norse, ‘Fallow hooves’, or ‘pale hoofed’, or ‘Hollow footed’. Likely indicating it’s trampling of the grass beneath it’s hooves. And it’s hooves being well used.

It’s one of the named steeds ridden by the Aesir each day to and from the Well of Urdr, at the World Tree Yggdrasil, when they make their tribunals, judgements, or statements of dooms.

Not much else is known about it.