Ymir

supernatural being in Germanic folklore

moon of Saturn

In Norse cosmology, Niflheim or Niflheimr (Old Norse: ; "World of Mist", literally "Home of Mist") is a location which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel. The name Niflheimr appears only in two extant sources: Gylfaginning and the much-debated Hrafnagaldr Óðins.

thumb|upright=1.35|Ymir sucks at the udder of Auðumbla as she licks [[Búri out of the ice in a painting by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1790.]]

Völuspá (also Vǫluspá, Vǫlospá, or Vǫluspǫ́; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress') is the best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It dates back to the tenth century and tells the story from Norse Mythology of the creation of the world, its coming end, and its subsequent rebirth that is related to the audience by a völva addressing Odin. Her name is given twice as Heiðr. The poem is one of the most important primary sources for the study of Norse mythology. Parts of the poem appear in the Prose Edda, but the earliest known wholly preserved version of the poem is in the Codex Regius and Hau

In Norse cosmology, Muspelheim (), also called Muspell (), is a realm of fire.

Jamshid ; Classical Persian: Jamshēd ; Middle and New Persian: Jam ), also known as Yima ( ), is the fourth Shah of the mythological Pishdadian dynasty of Iran according to Shahnameh.

thumb|Auðumbla licks Búri free as she produces rivers of milk from her udders, an illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript of the Prose Edda thumb|Audumbla milk company in Stockholm 1908. This house was also [[Alfred Nobel's birthplace.]]

Bergelmir ( ; Old Norse: ) is a jötunn in Norse mythology.

Tindfjallajökull (, alternatively Tindafjallajökull) is a glacier in the south of Iceland whose name is also given to the underlying stratovolcano. Tindfjöll (, "peak mountains") is a ridge that extends to the south of the glacier and is an alternative name for the volcano. The name of the glacier in Icelandic means "Tindfjöll glacier".

2003 real-time strategy video game

thumb|Odin and Vafþrúðnir battle in a game of knowledge (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. Vafþrúðnir (Old Norse "mighty weaver") is a wise jötunn in Norse mythology. His name comes from Vaf, which means weave or entangle, and thrudnir, which means strong or mighty. Some interpret it to mean "mighty in riddles". It may be anglicized Vafthruthnir or Vafthrudnir. In the Poetic Edda poem Vafþrúðnismál, Vafþrúðnir acts as (the disguised) Odin's host and opponent in a deadly battle of wits that results in Vafþrúðnir's defeat.

island in Greenland

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In Norse mythology, Þrúðgelmir (; Old Norse "Strength Yeller") is a jötunn, the son of the primordial Aurgelmir (who Snorri Sturluson in Gylfaginning identifies with Ymir), and the father of Bergelmir. Þrúðgelmir had one brother and one sister, who were elder than he was. Þrúðgelmir's name is sometimes anglicized as Thrudgelmir. He may have been the born from Ymir's legs.

Norse gods

Four dwarfs who hold up the sky in Nordic mythology

In Norse mythology, Élivágar (Old Norse: ; "Ice Waves") are rivers that existed in Ginnungagap at the beginning of the world. The Prose Edda relates:

book by Snorri Sturluson

2008 video game

Danish soured milk product (1930- )

In Norse mythology, Brimir is possibly another name for the jötunn Ymir and also a name of a hall for the souls of the virtuous following the end-time conflict of Ragnarök.

fictional comic character based on mythical frost giant