Hrimthurs

Hrimthursen (Icelandic: Hrímþursar ) are the frost, frost or ice giants of Norse mythology. Your ancestor is Wafthrudnir, a son of Ymir. Other stories rename Thrudgelmir ( þrudgelmir ) as ancestors of the frost giants, who emerged from the rubbing of the feet Ymir. His son is Bergelmir. Thrudgelmir is an ugly, glacier -like creature with six heads.

Etymology Hrimthurse

Old Norse and Icelandic HRIM in German means " frost ". Since the term in the German ambiguous "ripe" ( fully developed, adapted ) to the adjective, the term is brightened by the semantically related noun " Frost" or " ice ". Therefore, in German there are the concepts of frost, frost and Eisthurse / ice giant.

The noun Thurse is related to Icelandic þursur, Middle English thurse, thursse, thyrce, thurs, as I wished, Old English þyrs ( " giant demon, sorcerer "). It is based on proto- Germanic * Thurisaz, þursaz *, * þursiz ( " giant, name of þ - rune " ), from Proto- Indo-European root * ture, * twer (" rotate, rotate, swirl, move "). The semantics of the term refers to the elemental forces of nature.

Genesis of the frost giants

When the gods meet with the Giants, to deliberate about, a dispute arises. Odin and his brothers Vili and Ve killed Ymir and chop him into pieces. In his endless stream of blood all descendants of Ymir's drowning except Bergelmirs and his wife. This floating through the bloody waves and pulls his wife behind her hair until it manages to crawl to a giant mill on land where both stretched out and survive gasping for air and so save the race of frost giants and reproduce.

Appearance, character, life world

Which emanated from the rubbing of the feet giant Ymir's gender is of robust power and demonic nature. The growth is great, but of human shape. The frost giantesses are supernaturally beautiful face, which is why many of them to marry the Aesir. The male giant, however, are often of great ugliness. They represent much like the Titans in Greek mythology, the primal forces of nature. They are personifications of the dead, brute matter and creatures of chaos, which is why they live outside the world of men and gods. The frost giants live in a part Utgards, namely in Jötun (s) home, the giant world. As beings who lived before the birth of the gods, they have indeed a fathomless deep primeval wisdom, but without understanding how children and because of this good-natured and easy to beguile. But you can also show their physical strength by cruel and violent acts. The frost giants are mortal enemies of the gods and are using them as opposed to the simple Thursen almost always in dispute. Especially with Thor fighting mostly for their lives. Odin, however, it seeks to sometimes and asks for advice. Known Hrimthursen are Hymir (the father of Tyr ) and Gymir from Jotunheim (the father of Gerda, wife of Freyr ). Often the Giants are being cheated by the gods by a ruse. Many of them die by Mjolnir, the hammer of Thor.

The walls of Asgard

An unnamed mentioned Hrimthurse to be the builder of the walls of Asgard. For the completion of the construction work, he called Freya to wife and sun and moon as a gift of the Aesir. This, however, crafty and inclined to the fraud, provided the condition to accomplish the construction in six months. When it seemed that the giant could create this corresponds ( ver) led Loki, in the form of a mare, Svadilfari, the horse of the giants that helped him in his work. From this connection, the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, Loki, Odin made ​​the gift was. By this stratagem Loki the work was not completed on schedule, and the Æsir refused the giant builder the promised reward. Enraged at this list of the gods, he made ​​himself known as Hrimthurse and was immediately Thor with his hammer ( Mjolnir ) slain.