Upon his return, Freyr asks in a stanza of the tidings from Jötunheimar, to which his servant replies that she will meet him in nine nights at Barri.

After his journey, Skírnir meets Gerðr and her family living in a hall and tending to animals in the daylight, protected by a fence and dogs. A further prose section then describes that he his servant Skírnir his horse and sends him to her home at Gymisgarðar in Jötunheimar, which he reaches after travelling through wet mountains, a flickering flame and darkness. In the prose prologue Skírnismál, while sitting on Hliðskjálf, Freyr sees Gerðr, the daughter of Gymir, in Jötunheimar and falls in love with her. How fare the gods? how fare the elves? All Jotunheim groans, the gods are at council Loud roar the dwarfs by the doors of stone, The masters of the rocks: would you know yet more? Yggdrasil shakes, and shiver on high The ancient limbs, and the giant is loose To the head of Mim does Othin give heed, But the kinsman of Surt shall slay him soon. Hvat er með ásum? Hvat er með alfum? Gnýr allr Jötunheimr, æsir ro á þingi, stynja dvergar fyr steindurum, veggbergs vísir. Skelfr Yggdrasils askr standandi, ymr it aldna tré, en jötunn losnar hræðask allir á helvegum áðr Surtar þann sefi of gleypir. Towards the end of the poem, in the section describing the onset of Ragnarök, they are mentioned as follows: In the beginning of Völuspá, the coming of three women out of Jötunheimar marks the end of the Age of Gold for the gods. Jötunheimar are mentioned in three poems of the Poetic Edda. Attestations Poetic Edda Thrym's Wedding-feast by W.G. When attested in Eddic sources, the word is typically found in its plural form, Jǫtunheimar (' jǫtunn-lands'). Old Norse: Jǫtunheimr is a compound word formed from Old Norse: ' jǫtunn' and 'heimr', meaning a 'home' or 'world'. Jötunheimar are typically, but not exclusively, presented in Eddic sources as prosperous lands located to the north and are commonly separated from the lands inhabited by gods and humans by barriers that cannot be traversed by usual means.

The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called 'giants'). ( April 2018)ġ0th-century picture stone from the Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a female jötunn (or gýgr) riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards.

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