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Glitner

Divine mansion with walls of red gold and a silver roof, attested in the Prose Edda.

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Glitner is a divine mansion described in the Prose Edda, whose "walls and pillars and posts are of red gold, and the roof is of silver" (Prose Edda, On the Wonderful Things in Heaven). This resplendent hall is associated with Forsete and Nanna.

Prose Edda -- On the Wonderful Things in Heaven (2 citations)

Appears in: Places, Entities in Prose Edda, Norse Tradition