Þrúðgelmir

Thrudgelmir ( Old Norse Þrúðgelmir, power screamer ') is a giant ( Jotun ) in Norse mythology, which belongs to the prehistoric giants.

Swell

His name is mentioned only in the song Vafþrúðnismál. There he is referred to as the son of the first giant Aurgelmir and as the father of the giant Bergelmir:

" Ørófi vetra, ADR väri IORD scǫpuð, Tha var Bergelmir borinn; Þrúðgelmir var Thess Fadir, hen Aurgelmir afi. "

" Countless years before the earth was created, because Bergelmir was geborn; Thrudgelmir whose father, Aurgelmir Grandfather. "

From his father Aurgelmir says the same song that this one girl and one boy, and produced a six -headed son with his feet. Whether Thrudgelmir was one of the said two sons, is not explicitly stated, but it is quite possible for the text context:

" Undir hendi vaxa qváðo hrímþursi mey oc mǫg saman; Fotr við foti gat into froda iotuns sexhǫfðaðan son. "

" The bottom arm grew, they say, the frost giants [ Aurgelmir ] together girl and boy; begat the foot with the foot of the wise giant a six -headed son. "

Snorri Sturluson sat in his Prose Edda the fußerzeugten son Aurgelmir - Ymir with the Father Bergelmirs same, without mentioning Thrudgelmir by name. This follows from the fact that he says both the fußerzeugten son as well as via Bergelmir that they are all descended frost giants:

"En SVA he says, at Tha he hann SVAF, fekk hann sveita. Tha Ox undir vinstri hendi honum Madr ok kona, ok annarr Fotr hans gat but við öðrum, en þaðan af Komu ættir. That eru hrímþursar. [ ... ] Hann kalla jötnar Bergelmi. [ ... ] ok eru af theim komnar hrímþursa ættir, [ ... ] "

"It is said that he started [ Aurgelmir / Ymir ] as he slept to sweat. As he grew under his left arm a man and a woman. And the one with the other foot begat a son, derived from the whole clan. These are the frost giants. [ ... ] The name the giant Bergelmir. [ ... ] From him the families of the frost giants are descended from [... ]. "

In the Þulur Thrudgelmir is called as Heiti for giant ( jötunn ). That is, a poet could use the name as a synonym for giant.

Reception

In research, we follow only part of this equation of the Prose Edda. It is also argued that the poet of Vafþrúðnismál aware of a three -generational sequence of prehistoric giants and wanted to create the giant Thrudgelmir invented because its name is mentioned in this song and within the three -generational sequence is the one name that can be most easily interpreted.