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According to Norse legend, what material was Naglfar—the ship Loki commands during Ragnarok—said to be built from?
Answer
The fingernails and toenails of the dead
Norse sources describe Naglfar as constructed from the untrimmed nails of the deceased, and tradition held that trimming a corpse's nails before burial delayed the ship's completion and thus Ragnarok itself.
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Loki breaks free from his magical chains during Ragnarok and steers Naglfar, a ship built from dead men's fingernails, toward the gods.
Other options people guess
- The bones of frost giants
- The bark of Yggdrasil
- The scales of the Midgard Serpent
Topics
- norse-mythology
- ragnarok
- loki
- folklore
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