In the Norse myth of Ragnarok, Hrym was the giant who captained and piloted the ship, Naglfar. Naglfar was made of the untrimmed nails of the dead. Hrym would bring the frost giants from Giantland to the plain of Vigrid.
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Frost-giant. In some traditions, Hymir was the father of the war-god Tyr , like in the Hymiskvida , a poem found Poetic Edda . The usual tradition says that Odin was Tyr's father. The Hymiskvida was slightly different from the version found in the...
Hrungnir was a giant from Griotunagardar, frontier of Giantland. He was considered to be the strongest giant in the world. His head and heart was made of stone. Hrungnir owned a horse called Gullfaxi ("Golden Mane"), the fastest horse in the Giant...
The first primeval giant was generally known as Ymir. The frost-giants called him Aurgelmir. Ymir was the first creature created in the universe. Ymir was the father of the race of frost-giants. The frost-giants were born from the sweat of his arm...
Hrimthurs was the giant who built the walls around Asgard and owner of the intelligent and magical stallion called Svadilfari. Hrimthurs claimed he could build the wall within six months. Had Hrimthurs won, the giant would receive Freyja as his br...
Odin encountered the giant Hrungnir at Griotunagardar (frontier of Giantland), where he told the frost-giant there was no better horse in Giantland than his own ( Sleipnir ). Angry at this challenge, Hrungnir pursued Odin on his own horse Gullfaxi...
According to Snorri, Hræsvelg was a giant who lived at the northernmost end of heaven. When Gangleri, an alias used by Gylfi, king of Sweden, questioned the mysterious three gods in the Prose Edda about where the winds come from, they answered tha...
The Giants were the chief enemies of the gods, particularly the Aesir. In the Norse world, a giant was called Jotun or Iotun . There were several different types of giants. The frost-giants were the most common giants; they lived in Jotunheim , on...
Giant. Thrym ("crash") was the ruler of the giants in Jötunheim (Jotunheim). He stole Mjollnir, the magical hammer of Thor . Loki found out from the giants that Thrym would return the hammer to Thor, if he was allowed to marry Freyja . It was Thor...
Norse mythology is full of all sorts of powerful deities and giants . Like in virtually all mythologies, some of them were nicer than others. Some were fearsome and very clearly malevolent. However, the way that Norse mythology has been presented ...
Jotunheim: Land of Creatures Jotunheim was the land or home of the jötunn, the creatures of the Norse world. They were neither human nor were they deities, and they lived in a special land. It was the complete opposite of the ordered and organized...