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Hrímgerðr

norse mythical character

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ5924110 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hrímgerðr (also Hrimgerd or Hrimgerdr; Old Norse: [ˈhriːmˌɡerðz̠], "frost-Gerðr") is a jötunn in Norse mythology.

Name

The Old Norse name Hrímgerðr has been translated as 'frost-Gerðr'.

Attestation

In Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Hrímgerðr announces herself as the daughter of the jötunn Hati.

After the hero Helgi Hundingsbane kills her father, Hrímgerðr harasses him, and Atli Idmundsson engages her in a contest of flyting until she turns into stone in the sunrise.

Notes

References

Orchard, Andy (1997). Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-34520-5.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hrímgerðr” as norse mythical character. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hrímgerðr, norse and mythical can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as norse mythical character. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5924110. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hrímgerðr” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.