Sahrimner
The boar Sahrimner is boiled every day by the cook Andhrimner in the kettle Eldhrimner and is whole again by evening
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The boar Sahrimner is boiled every day by the cook Andhrimner in the kettle Eldhrimner and is whole again by evening (Prose Edda, The Younger Edda: > Chapter Xii. > Life In Valhal.)
Sahrimner is the boar on which the gods and heroes in Valhal live (Prose Edda, The Younger Edda: > Chapter Xv. > Vocabulary.)
Prose Edda
- attestation: The boar Sahrimner is boiled every day by the cook Andhrimner in the kettle Eldhrimner and is whole again by evening (The Younger Edda: > Chapter Xii. > Life In Valhal.)
"they will get plenty of flesh of the boar Sahrimner. He is boiled every day and is whole again in the evening"
- attestation: Sahrimner is the boar on which the gods and heroes in Valhal live (The Younger Edda: > Chapter Xv. > Vocabulary.)
"SAHRIMNER. The boar on which the gods and heroes in Valhal live."
Appears in: Beings, Entities in Prose Edda, Norse Tradition