![]() ![]() Gná likes speed, so it’s easiest to contact her while running, riding or driving, wind blowing through your hair. Making herself tiny allows sneaking in and out of many places to overhear secrets and be overlooked - being small is sometimes an advantage. When wandering in spirit during dreams, she has a mouse as a steed. He is her first adviser, as she understands the language of animals. Her beloved horse Hoof-Tosser can run through the air as if it were solid ground, and the two are as close as any married couple. She cannot endure being in one place long, which makes her ideal as messenger to Frigga and the Goddesses. Gná is a free-spirited horse rider who lives for speed and the sight of new roads. High ends his description of Gná by saying that "from Gna's name comes the custom of saying that something gnaefir when it rises up high." In the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, Gná is included among a list of 27 ásynjur names. The source for these stanzas is not provided and they are otherwise unattested. Gná responds in verse, in doing so providing the parentage of Hófvarpnir the horses Hamskerpir and Garðrofa. High continues that "once some Vanir saw her path as she rode through the air" and that an unnamed one of these Vanir says, in verse. High adds that Gná rides the horse Hófvarpnir, and that this horse has the ability to ride through the air and atop the sea. High lists Gná thirteenth, and says that Frigg sends her off to different worlds to run errands. In chapter 35 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High provides brief descriptions of 16 ásynjur. ![]() Hófvarpnir and the eight-legged steed Sleipnir have been cited examples of transcendent horses in Norse mythology. Scholarly theories have been proposed about Gná as a "goddess of fullness" and as potentially cognate to Fama from Roman mythology. Gná and Hófvarpnir are attested in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In Norse mythology, Gná (Old Norse: ) is a goddess who runs errands in other worlds for the goddess Frigg and rides the flying, sea-treading horse Hófvarpnir (O.N.:, "he who throws his hoofs about", "hoof-thrower" or "hoof kicker"). Unable to let go of her hatred, Gná insisted her former friend finish her off. Putting up a desperate but formidable fight against her powerful opponents, she remained utterly loyal to the All-Father until the very end. Gná makes her last stand in Muspelheim where she awaits for Freya and Kratos, daring them to fight her. Following the destruction of Asgard, she takes command of the surviving forces still loyal to Odin. Gná most notably leads the Einherjar during Ragnarök, trying to protect what she vowed to serve until death. Carrying forth Odin's will with zeal, she trained the Einherjar together with Hrist and Mist with a fist of steel for the final showdown. Her unyielding commitment to Asgard paid off, but she had much to do as most of the Valkyries were gone. However, following Sigrún's defection shortly before Fimbulwinter, the All-Father needed once more a new Queen: only Gná would do. She and her sisters then served Sigrún, who has been chosen as the new Queen of the Valkyries to replace Freya. ![]() From this moment on, Gná was fuelled by a deep hatred towards her former friend, who seemingly abandoned her and her own people. Not only that, after Freya was cursed and banished to Midgard by the All-Father, the King of the Aesir also unleashed his fury upon Vanaheim, taking advantage of Freya's banishment to effectively subdue the Vanir realm for good, leaving it devastated and under occupation by the Einherjar. But when the latter took the decision to abruptly end her marriage with Odin, Gná felt personally betrayed by a choice she could neither understand, nor accept. ![]() It wasn't long before Gná pledged loyalty to the All-Father and sought to serve him by joining the Valkyries, while Freya became herself their Queen. When the Aesir-Vanir War broke out between Asgard and Vanaheim, Gná fought bitterly alongside Freya and the Vanir, and she eventually followed her friend in Asgard as the latter was to wed Odin, thus finally bringing peace on the Nine Realms. Long before the events of the series, Gná loyally served Freya in Vanaheim, running errands across the Nine Realms on her flying horse Hófvarpnir. She is introduced in God of War Ragnarök as the new Queen of the Valkyries, since Sigrún regained her freedom following her defeat at the hands of Kratos and Atreus, three years ago. Gná (Old Norse: gnɑ) was the Vanir Goddess of Wind and Fullness, and Freya's former handmaiden. – Gná blaming Freya and Kratos for Asgard's destruction. GOOD! I will see you PAY for what you have done. ![]()
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