Fjalar (rooster)

Attested in the Völuspá stanza of the Poetic Edda, Fjalar is presented as a red rooster whose crowing signals the beginning of Ragnarök. The name Fjalarr (Old Norse) carries an etymological sense rendered as 'deceiver' or 'hider' in scholarship and may be applied as a name or an epithet; some scholars note the name occurs for multiple figures in the corpus (a dwarf, an alias of Suttungr, a giant), and argue the recurrence may reflect a descriptive label rather than a single unified personal identity.

In the attestations cited (Völuspá), Fjalar is portrayed as a 'beautiful red rooster.' The supplied material offers no extended morphological description beyond species and color.

Fjalar's sole attested performative action is to crow; in Völuspá this crowing is tied to the onset of Ragnarök and functions as a herald or omen. The provided sources do not record additional powers, regular behaviors, or interactions beyond this eschatological role.