Another animal belonging to the Norse mythology deserving attention is Gullinbursti, a boar covered in golden bristles able to run anywhere, on earth and in the sea, even in the darkest place thanks to the light radiating from its body. It is the fastest of the chargers and is at the service of Freyr, the god of beauty and fertility.

We will not investigate what Gullinbursti symbolizes in the Norse mythology, even if the pig has been important in many archaic civilizations and still is in the rural ones, supplying nutriment even in the cold winters when hunting is not possible and nature is moderate in offering fruits of the earth; probably this is the origin of the light as a tool to cross the darkness of need and peril.

Nonetheless, we like to think about people of the past, distant many centuries from us, associating to the god of beauty a swine, an animal whose name is often used as an offence; and we then look in discomfort to our times where there are still people thinking that virtue resides only with a part of human beings and evil with others.