In Norse mythology’s Ragnarok, the rooster that crows to awaken the gods and warriors is Gullinkambi.
Gullinkambi is a rooster associated with Valhalla and the slain warriors known as the einherjar. In the poem Völuspá, his crowing is part of the sequence of signs announcing the approach of Ragnarok. His name is commonly translated as “Golden Comb.”
The poem also describes other roosters crowing in different places. Fjalar crows among the giants, while an unnamed soot-red rooster crows in Hel. These multiple birds are easy to confuse, but Gullinkambi is the one linked with the gods and the warriors in Valhalla.
Gullinkambi should not be confused with Heimdall’s Gjallarhorn, whose sounding also signals the final crisis. The rooster’s crow is a separate omen in the poetic account. The name comes from Old Norse material preserved chiefly in Völuspá, one of the major mythological poems of the Poetic Edda.