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{{Short description|Rooster from Norse mythology}}
In [[Norse mythology]], '''Gullinkambi''' ([[Old Norse]] "[[gold]]en [[Comb (anatomy)|comb]]"<ref name=SIMEK122>Simek (2007:122).</ref>), also known as '''Salgofnir''',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bugge |first=Sophus |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Home_of_the_Eddic_Poems/q5qKW4fpN-4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Salgofnir&pg=PA113&printsec=frontcover |title=The Home of the Eddic Poems: With Especial Reference to the Helgi-lays |publisher=David Nutt |year=1899 |edition=Revised |location=Strand, London |pages=113–115 |language=en |translator-last=Schofield |translator-first=William}}</ref> is a [[rooster]] who lives in [[Valhalla]]. In the ''[[Poetic Edda]]'' poem ''[[Völuspá]]'', Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of [[Ragnarök]]. The other two roosters are [[Fjalar (rooster)|Fjalar]] in the wood [[Gálgviðr]], and an unnamed soot-red rooster in [[Hel (location)|Hel]]:
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:<small>[[Benjamin Thorpe]] translation:</small>
:Crowed o'er the Æsir  Gullinkambi,
:which wakens heroes with the sire of hosts;
:but another crows beneath the earth, a soot-red cock,
:in the halls of Hel.<ref name=THORPE8>Thorpe (1866:8).</ref>
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:<small>[[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Henry Adams Bellows]] translation:</small>
:Then to the gods crowed Gollinkambi,
:He wakes the heroes in Othin's hall;
:And beneath the earth does another crow,
:The rust-red bird at the bars of Hel.<ref name=BELLOWS21>Bellows (1936:19).</ref>
|
|}
</blockquote>

It has been suggested that the central tree depicted in the [[Överhogdal tapestries]] is the world tree [[Yggdrasil]] and that the bird at the top is Gullinkambi.<ref name="SCHON50">Schön (2004:50).</ref>

== In popular culture ==

* In Kobayashi Maid Dragon Manga, Tohru used the eggs of Gullinkambi to make omurice.

==Notes==
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==References==
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* [[Henry Adams Bellows (businessman)|Bellows, Henry Adams]] (Trans.) (1936). ''The Poetic Edda''. [[Princeton University Press]]. New York: [[The American-Scandinavian Foundation]].
* Schön, Ebbe (2004). ''Asa-Tors Hammare, Gudar och Jättar i tro och Tradition''. Fält & Hässler, Värnamo. {{ISBN|91-89660-41-2}}
* [[Rudolf Simek|Simek, Rudolf]] (2007) translated by Angela Hall. ''Dictionary of Northern Mythology''. [[Boydell & Brewer|D.S. Brewer]]. {{ISBN|0-85991-513-1}}
* [[Benjamin Thorpe|Thorpe, Benjamin]] (Trans.) (1866). ''Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: The Edda of Sæmund the Learned''. Part I. London: Trübner & Co.
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