Hrímgerðr

In Norse mythology, Hrímgerðr ("frost-Gerðr"[1]) is a female jötunn. Hrímgerðr is attested in Poetic Edda poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, where she engages in heated flyting with Atli Indmundsson.

Notes

  1. Orchard (1997:90).

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