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For the Swedish black metal band, see Naglfar (band)

In Norse mythology, Naglfar was a ship made entirely from the nails of the dead. During Ragnarök, Naglfar will be freed from the land by a flood and sail to Vagrond, the battlefield, by Hymir along with an army of giants. The ship will lead the hordes of evil against the gods in the last war at the end of time, before a new world will arise from the sea.

The ship's name means "Wraith ferry," but Snorri in the Prose Edda provides a folk etymology of "Nail ferry," urging that no dead be buried with uncut fingernails, lest more material be added to it.

A model of the ship was an item in the 2006 UChicago Scav Hunt.

References In Video Games

In the Strategy/Role Playing Game, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Lyon, the Necromancer, wields a magic tome named Naglfar.

In the MMOG EVE Online, the Minmatar Dreadnought is named Naglfar.

In the Hack and slash Action game Blade of Darkness, the player can play as Naglfar the Dwarf.

In the Xenosaga video game series, there is a weapon in the shape of a giant cannon named Naglfar which players face within the "Submerged City" dungeon level of "Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse"; also, one of the AMWS Pilum's attacks is named "Naglfar Third Portable Weapon" which is a large beam blast similar to the blasts fired by the Naglfar Cannon. As AMWS Pilum (a.k.a. ES Gad) achieves "E.S." status in "Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra", ES Gad retains the attack.

References In Literature

In John C. Wright's novel The Golden Transcendence, Naglfar is the name of an ill-fated starship.

In Philip Reeve's novel Infernal Devices Naglfar is the name of the submarine used by Uncle (the leader of the lost boys) to rehabilitate Grimsby. A reference is made to the Norse myth about a ship constructed of dead men's fingernails.

In the first entry in the All's End series, Far, the Bluddstayns' leader, is named after Naglfar. In John Myers Myers' novel Silverlock, the protagonist is for a time a passenger on a ship named the S. S. Naglfar.