Gná- Norse GodDeity
Also known as: Gna
Description
Frigg's messenger rides a horse that gallops on air as easily as earth. When Gná passes overhead, even the Vanir stop and stare upward, calling out to ask what flies above them.
Mythology & Lore
The Rider in the Air
Snorri counts Gná among the Ásynjur in Gylfaginning and says Frigg sends her on errands across the worlds. Her horse Hófvarpnir, sired by Hamskerpir out of Garðrofa, runs through air and over sea as though on solid ground.
Once, as she rode through the sky, some of the Vanir saw her passing above and one called up: "What flies there? What fares there? What glides through the air?" Gná answered from the saddle: "I fly not, though I fare and glide through the air on Hófvarpnir, whom Hamskerpir got on Garðrofa." Snorri adds that from Gná's name comes the word gnæfa, to tower high, because that is what she does.
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