Old Norse: Gymir
Meaning: "Engulfer"
1. Aegir
2. a giant
1.
Gymir = another name of the giant Aegir.
- Poetic Edda: Lokasenna
- Prose Edda: Skáldskaparmál XXXIII
As Aegir it is a common name for sea and ocean.
(Prose Edda: Skáldskaparmál LXXVI, Nafnaþulur LXII)
It was also used as a name for a giant.
(Prose Edda: Nafnaþulur VI)
2.
The mountain-giant with the name Gymir was the husband of Aurboda and father of Gerd and Beli.
- Poetic Edda: Skirnismál, Lokasenna, Hyndluljóð
- Prose Edda: Gylfaginning XXXVII
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