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Name Name meaning Alternative names Attested relatives Attestations Ægir "Sea" Hlér Gymir (contested): Father: Fornjótr Brothers: Logi, Kári Wife: Rán Daughters ...
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 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 ...
Þjóðólfr of Hvinir, a Norwegian skald of the late 9th–early 10th century AD cited in Ynglinga tal (29), apparently uses the kenning "son of Fornjót" as a synonym of 'fire', and another skald only known under the name Svein appears to use the kenning "ugly sons of Fornjót" to mean the 'wind'.
Thrym's Wedding-feast by W.G. Collingwood. Jötunheimar are mentioned in three poems of the Poetic Edda.In the beginning of Völuspá, the coming of three women out of Jötunheimar marks the end of the Age of Gold for the gods. [5]
Her story was retold in free verse by the Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný in her Blóðhófnir, a feminist retelling of Skírnismál that won the 2010 Icelandic Literature Award. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Saturn's moon Gerd is named after her.
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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.