Járnsaxa (; Old Norse: ) is a jötunn in Norse mythology. In the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, she is described as the lover of Thor and the mother of his son Magni.
Járnsaxa (; Old Norse: ) is a jötunn in Norse mythology. In the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, she is described as the lover of Thor and the mother of his son Magni.
== Name == Old Norse sax corresponds to Old English seax and refers to a short sword or large knife; járn means 'iron'. Járnsaxa has been translated as 'iron dagger', 'the one with the iron knife' or 'armed with an iron sword'.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).