Hyrrokkin
Sign in to savethumb|It is believed that Hyrrokkin is featured on the stone DR 284 (Hunnestad Monument|Hunnestad 3), depicting an animal ridden by a woman with two [[snakes in her hands.]] Hyrrokkin (Old Norse: ) is a female jötunn in Norse mythology. According to 13th-century poet Snorri Sturluson, she launched the largest of all ships at Baldr's funeral after the Æsir gods were unable to budge the vessel.
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thumb|It is believed that Hyrrokkin is featured on the stone DR 284 (Hunnestad Monument|Hunnestad 3), depicting an animal ridden by a woman with two [[snakes in her hands.]] Hyrrokkin (Old Norse: ) is a female jötunn in Norse mythology. According to 13th-century poet Snorri Sturluson, she launched the largest of all ships at Baldr's funeral after the Æsir gods were unable to budge the vessel.
Hyrrokkin was a relatively important figure in the last decades of paganism in Iceland. She appears to be depicted on one of the DR 284 stones from the Hunnestad Monument near Marsvinsholm, Sweden.
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