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Hymir (Old Norse: [ˈhymez̠]) is a jötunn in
Norse mythology, and the
owner of a brewing-cauldron
fetched by the
thunder god Thor for Ægir, who
wants to...
- Hymiskviða (Old Norse: 'The lay of
Hymir';
anglicized as Hymiskvitha,
Hymiskvidha or Hymiskvida) is a poem
collected in the
Poetic Edda. The poem was...
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giant Hymir. When
Hymir refuses to
provide Thor with bait, Thor
strikes the head off
Hymir's largest ox to use it. They row to a
point where Hymir often...
- Old
Norse sources, Týr is
alternately described as the son of the jötunn
Hymir (in Hymiskviða) or of the god Odin (in Skáldskaparmál).
Lokasenna makes...
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depicts two
scenes from the story: Thor
ripping the head of
Hymir's ox and Thor and
Hymir in the boat, but this has been disputed. The Sønder Kirkeby...
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friendly to the Æsir and the wife of the jötunn
Hymir. If Hróðr is Tyr's mother, the poem
suggests that
Hymir is the father, but the
later Prose Edda states...
- brew ale for all of them. On Tyr's suggestion, Thor
travels to the jötunn
Hymir and goes
fishing with him to
obtain his cauldron.
Balder has
recurring nightmares...
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Hljod Hræsvelgr
Hraudung Hrímgerðr Hrímgrímnir Hrímnir Hroðr
Hrungnir Hrymr Hymir Hyrrokkin Iði Ím Járnsaxa Jörð Kári
Leikn Litr Logi Mögþrasir Móðguðr Rindr...
- Some
female jötnar are
described as
being beautiful, such as Gerðr and
Hymir's partner,
while others are
described as
monstrous and
having many heads...
- the
Vanir to the Æsir
during the Æsir-Vanir War, that the "daughters of
Hymir" once used Njörðr "as a ****pot",
urinating in his
mouth (an
otherwise unattested...
