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Skidbladnir

[ skeed-blahd-nir ]

noun

, Scandinavian Mythology.
  1. the huge collapsible ship, made by two dwarfs for Frey, that always had a favoring wind.


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They were dwarfs, the sons of Ivaldi, who built Skidbladnir, and made a present of her to Frey.

Then they made the ship Skidbladnir, which always had the wind with it wherever it would sail.

Sindri the Dwarf has forged a greater thing than the spear Gungnir and the boat Skidbladnir.

Among their most noted works were Thor's hammer, and the ship Skidbladnir, which they gave to Freyr.

The ship Skidbladnir was said to have been made by four dwarfs in the beginning of time; it is alluded to in a poem quoted before.

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