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10th-century picture stone from the Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a gýgr riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin. A jötunn (also jotun; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; [1] or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.
The extant sources for Norse mythology, particularly the Prose and Poetic Eddas, contain many names of jötnar and gýgjar (often glossed as giants and giantesses respectively).
The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr [ˈjɔtonˌhɛimz̠]; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called "giants").
The Giant with the Flaming Sword (1909) by John Charles Dollman. In Norse mythology, Surtr (Old Norse "black" [1] or more narrowly "swart", [2] Surtur in modern Icelandic), also sometimes written Surt in English, [3] is a jötunn; he is the greatest of the fire giants and further serves as the guardian of Muspelheim, which is one of the only two realms to exist before the beginning of time ...
Niflheim was primarily a realm of primordial ice and cold, with the frozen rivers of Élivágar and the well of Hvergelmir, from which come all the rivers. [ 2 ] According to Gylfaginning , Niflheim was the first of the two primordial realms to emanate out of Ginnungagap , the other one being Muspelheim , the realm of fire.
Ymir sucks at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks Búri out of the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1790. In Norse mythology, Ymir [1] (/ ˈ iː m ɪər /), [2] also called Aurgelmir, Brimir, or Bláinn, is the ancestor of all jötnar.
Logi (Old Norse: , 'fire, flame') or Hálogi ([ˈhɑːˌloɣe], 'High Flame') is a jötunn and the personification of fire in Norse mythology. He is a son of the jötunn Fornjótr and the brother of Ægir or Hlér ('sea') and Kári ('wind'). Logi married fire giantess Glöð and she gave birth to their two beautiful daughters—Eisa and Eimyrja.
Starkad as illustrated on Carta Marina (1539) by Olaus Magnus.. Starkad (Old Norse: Starkaðr [ˈstɑrkɑðz̠] or Stǫrkuðr [ˈstɔrkoðz̠]; [1] Latin: Starcaterus; in the Late Middle Ages also Starkodder; modern Danish: Stærkodder) [2] was either an eight-armed giant or the human grandson of the aforementioned giant in Norse mythology.