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Jotunheim
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thumb|10th-century picture stone from the [[Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a female (or ) riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin.]]
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Attestations
- Poetic Edda
- Gylfaginning
- Skáldskaparmál
- Position in cosmology
- See also
- Citations
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thumb|10th-century picture stone from the [[Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a female (or ) riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin.]]
The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr ; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called "giants").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jotunheim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.