place

Jötunheim

Places

The giant-home east or outland in Norse cosmography. Not Utgard as a named giant court alone, and not Midgard.

Also known as Jotunheim · Jǫtunheimr

Norse tradition

  • Jötunheim appears in Norse tradition.

    Skírnismál, Hymiskviða, and neighboring Poetic Edda lays seat journeys into Jötunheimr among giant-home speech. A named giant-land in that verse corpus, not Útgarðr as the outer court alone and not Midgard.

    from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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  • Thor appears in Jötunheim.

    Hymiskviða and Þrymskviða in the Poetic Edda seat Þórr’s journeys among giant-home roads and halls. A named presence of Thor in Jötunheim speech, not Útgarðr as the Gylfaginning court and not Asgard as home alone.

    from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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sources

  • Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)

    The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.