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Gulltoppr
In
Norse mythology
,
Gulltoppr
(
Old Norse
"golden
mane
") is one of the horses of the gods. Gulltoppr is mentioned in a list of horses in the
Poetic Edda
poem
Grímnismál
and in
Nafnaþulur
section of the
Prose Edda
. According to
Prose Edda
book
Gylfaginning
, he is the horse of
Heimdallr
.
Rudolf Simek
theorizes that Snorri assigned a horse to Heimdallr in an attempt to systematize the mythology.
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