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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).
9.2 Norse mythology. 9.3 Sámi folklore. 10 French folklore. 11 German folklore. ... This is a list of giants and giantesses from mythology and folklore; ...
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.
Some are portrayed as huge, such as some frost giants (hrímþursar), fire giants (eldjötnar), and mountain giants (bergrisar). The jötnar are the origin of most of various monsters in Norse mythology (e.g. the Fenrisulfr ) and in the eventual battle of Ragnarök , the giants will storm Asgard and fight the gods until the world is destroyed.
(For a list of these deities, see List of Germanic deities.) Some of the gods heard less of include the apple-bearing goddess Iðunn and her husband, the skaldic god Bragi ; the gold-toothed god Heimdallr , born of nine mothers ; the ancient god Týr , who lost his right hand while binding the great wolf Fenrir ; and the goddess Gefjon , who ...
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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").
A well in Norse mythology. Valhalla (from Old Norse Valhöll "hall of the slain") is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the god Odin. Vanaheimr: The Land of the Vanir, another tribe of gods, according to Norse legends. Yggdrasil: An immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology.