page_title: Gjallarhorn
section_title: Archaeological record
hierarchical_section_title: Gjallarhorn / Archaeological record
caption_attribution_description: A part of the Gosforth Cross, showing some sort of double-monster and a humanoid figure with a spear and a horn. Finnur Jónsson interprets the monster as Fenrir and tentatively suggests Heimdallr for the other figure. The engraving is signed "Magnus P.".
context_page_description: In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. Gjallarhorn is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional material, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson.
context_section_description: A figure holding a large horn to his lips and clasping a sword on his hip appears on a stone cross from the Isle of Man. Some scholars have theorized that this figure is a depiction of Heimdallr with Gjallarhorn.
  A 9th or 10th century Gosforth Cross in Cumbria, England depicts a figure holding a horn and a sword standing defiantly before two open-mouthed beasts. This figure has been oft theorized as depicting Heimdallr with Gjallarhorn.
caption: The Gosforth Cross panel often held to depict Heimdallr with Gjallarhorn
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