The AWP | Gungnir is the top skin of the Norse Collection, a set of 18 finishes that Valve released with Operation Shattered Web in November 2019. Like the other Shattered Web collections it was never in a case: players earned it as operation rewards, and since the operation closed, new copies can only come from trade-up contracts.
Operation Shattered Web
Valve launched Operation Shattered Web on November 18, 2019. It brought CS:GO's first equippable agents, covered in our agents guide, and swapped earlier operations' drop systems for a battle pass. Weekly mission cards awarded stars, and stars moved you along a reward track. The Counter-Strike Wiki's copy of that track puts the Norse Collection at 10, 34 and 70 stars, between rewards from the Canals and St. Marc collections, Shattered Web Cases, stickers, graffiti and agents. Missions also rewarded random skins from the operation's collections.
The track did not stop at 100 stars. Valve's FAQ said there was no limit to how many times you could cycle through it by buying more stars. The operation officially ended on March 30, 2020, according to the Wiki.
Valve's announcement said the three new weapon collections featured designs from community artists, and its operation page credits the Norse Collection to The Honey Badger. Dexerto's first look at the update described him as a CS:GO modder. The St. Marc Collection, home of the AK-47 | Wild Lotus, came from the same operation and was designed by Chemical Alia.
Odin's spear in pearlescent paint
The Gungnir's description reads: "Odin's spear travels down this custom painted pearlescent blue and ivory AWP." The flavour text is four words: "A weapon for the Allfather".
The pearlescent part was new. Valve's release notes for the same day added support for pearlescent coatings, which "use ceramic crystals to reflect and refract light, splitting it into different colors as the view angle changes", and said some weapons in the new Shattered Web collections used them to show what the feature could do. Valve's files list the Gungnir as a gunsmith finish, the style its Weapon Finishes Guide describes as a combination of patina and custom paint.
The Gungnir is a Covert, the top weapon grade, with floats from 0.00 to 0.60. Every wear exists, though the most worn copies stop well short of 1.00.
The Norse Collection by rarity
Valve's item definitions rank the 18 finishes like this:
| Rarity | Skins |
|---|---|
| Covert | AWP Gungnir |
| Classified | Negev Mjölnir |
| Restricted | AUG Flame Jörmungandr, Desert Eagle Emerald Jörmungandr, P90 Astral Jörmungandr |
| Mil-Spec | CZ75-Auto Emerald Quartz, MAC-10 Copper Borre, SCAR-20 Brass, XM1014 Frost Borre |
| Industrial | Dual Berettas Pyre, M4A1-S Moss Quartz, MAG-7 Chainmail, USP-S Pathfinder |
| Consumer | FAMAS Night Borre, Galil AR Tornado, MP7 Scorched, SG 553 Barricade, SSG 08 Red Stone |
The Norse theme runs through most of the set. The Negev Mjölnir is "custom painted red and features a number of Norse runes", with the flavour text "This is all Loki's fault…". The three Jörmungandr skins depict the World Serpent in orange, green and blue-silver, all with the line "Wake the gods". The Borre finishes on the FAMAS, XM1014 and MAC-10 use a Norse-inspired pattern of interlocking rings.
A few entries reuse older ideas. The USP-S Pathfinder carries the same Pathfinder finish the P2000 got in the 2015 Gods and Monsters Collection, and the SG 553 Barricade is another isometric labyrinth stencil, with the flavour text "Hopeless by design".
No StatTrak, and Souvenirs only since 2026
Because the Norse Collection never came in a case, none of its skins exist in StatTrak. It was not in any souvenir package either. Since May 2026, though, the Souvenir-O-Matic introduced for the IEM Cologne 2026 Major has let players convert a normal weapon they own into a Souvenir with four gold stickers from a completed match. A Souvenir Gungnir is therefore a converted normal copy, and its stickers point to a 2026 match. Our guide to StatTrak and Souvenir explains both labels.
Trade-ups: ten Mjölnirs, one Gungnir
A trade-up contract exchanges ten skins of one rarity for one skin of the next rarity from the collection of one of the inputs. The Norse Collection has exactly one Classified and one Covert, so ten Negev Mjölnirs can only become an AWP Gungnir. Ten Norse Restricted skins, any mix of the three Jörmungandrs, can only become a Mjölnir.
That is the same structure the Cobblestone Collection has for the AWP Dragon Lore, and the Gods and Monsters Collection has for the AWP Medusa. Mixing in Classifieds from other collections only gives a partial chance at the Gungnir, and the float of the result follows the formula in our trade-up guide.
The October 2025 rule that lets five Covert skins become a knife or gloves does not apply. That contract draws from the knives and gloves of an input's collection, and the Norse Collection has none.
Checking a Gungnir before you buy
- Read the float against 0.60. A copy near 0.60 is as worn as the skin gets, which is still much cleaner than the heaviest wear on a full-range AWP.
- Look at it in game. The pearlescent coating shifts colour with the viewing angle, so screenshots can make two copies look more different, or more alike, than they are.
- Check for Souvenir stickers. Gold Cologne 2026 stickers mean a converted copy.
- Ignore StatTrak claims. No StatTrak Gungnir exists.
On CS2Sell, the collection and float range filters on Buy list every Norse skin and narrow them to the wear you want.
Sources
- Release Notes for 11/18/2019 — Counter-Strike blog
- Operation Shattered Web — Counter-Strike
- Operation Shattered Web — Counter-Strike Wiki
- First look at new CSGO skins from Operation Shattered Web update — Dexerto
- items_game.txt — GameTracking-CS2 on GitHub
- Weapon Finishes Guide — Counter-Strike
- Trade Up Contract — Counter-Strike Wiki
- How to Use the CS2 Souvenir-O-Matic — Dot Esports
