Draupnir’s Connections

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Created by

• Brokkr,Sindri

  Brokkr and Sindri forged Draupnir, Odin's gold ring that multiplies itself every ninth night, as part of their wager with Loki.

Associated with

• Baldur

  Odin placed Draupnir, the golden arm-ring that multiplied itself every ninth night, on Baldur's funeral pyre as a final gift to his slain son.

• Hermod

  Hermóðr rode to Hel to beg for Baldur's return, and though the dead god could not follow, Baldur pressed Draupnir into Hermóðr's hand as a token for Odin — so the ring that Odin had laid on his son's pyre came back to the living.

• Hringhorni

  Odin placed Draupnir, the self-replicating gold ring, on the funeral pyre aboard Hringhorni as a final gift to his dead son Baldur.