Ymir
Norse · deity · primordial · deity
Primordial frost-giant from whose slain body Odin and his brothers fashioned the world.
Domains
Powers
- Spawn the first beings from his sweat
- his slain body becomes the substance of the world
- engenders the race of frost-giants from his own body
Epithets
Relations
Sources
- Prose Edda, Gylfaginning 5-8; Poetic Edda, Völuspá 3, Vafþrúðnismál 21, Grímnismál 40-41
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