Editing Gná and Hófvarpnir (section)

==Attestations==
In chapter 35 of the ''[[Prose Edda]]'' book ''[[Gylfaginning]]'', the enthroned figure of [[High, Just-As-High, and Third|High]] provides brief descriptions of 16 [[ásynjur]]. High lists Gná thirteenth, and says that Frigg sends her off to different worlds to run errands. High adds that Gná rides the horse Hófvarpnir, and that this horse has the ability to ride through the air and atop the sea.<ref name=BYOCK43/> 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:
<blockquote>
:"What flies there?
:What fares there?
:or moves through the air?"<ref name=BYOCK44>Byock (2005:44).</ref>
</blockquote>
Gná responds in verse, in doing so providing the parentage of Hófvarpnir; the horses [[Hamskerpir and Garðrofa]]:
<blockquote>
:"I fly not
:though I fare
:and move through the air
:on Hofvarpnir
:the one whom Hamskerpir got
:with Gardrofa."<ref name=BYOCK44/>
</blockquote>
The source for these stanzas is not provided and they are otherwise unattested. High ends his description of Gná by saying that "from Gna's name comes the custom of saying that something ''gnaefir'' [looms] when it rises up high."<ref name=BYOCK44/> In the ''Prose Edda'' book ''[[Skáldskaparmál]]'', Gná is included among a list of 27 ásynjur names.<ref name=FAULKES157>Faulkes (1995:157).</ref>