Þrúðgelmir
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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.
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- male
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- Bergelmir
- Father
- Ymir
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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.
==Attestations== Þrúðgelmir appears in the poem Vafþrúðnismál from the Poetic Edda. When Odin (speaking under the assumed name Gagnrad) asks who was the eldest of the Æsir or of the in bygone days, Vafþrúðnir answers: "Uncountable winters before the earth was made, then Bergelmir was born, Thrudgelmir was his father, and Aurgelmir his grandfather."
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