The jötunn ("devourer"; plural jötnar), also referred to as ettin, thurs, or giants (risar in Old Norse), are primordial forces in Norse Mythology that represent chaos. Although not inherently evil, their chaotic nature is a threat to the order of the gods which is needed for the worlds of Yggdrasil to be.
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| - The jötunn ("devourer"; plural jötnar), also referred to as ettin, thurs, or giants (risar in Old Norse), are primordial forces in Norse Mythology that represent chaos. Although not inherently evil, their chaotic nature is a threat to the order of the gods which is needed for the worlds of Yggdrasil to be.
- A jötunn (anglicized jotunn or jotun ; from Old Norse jǫtunn was a giant in Norse mythology, a member of a race of nature spirits with superhuman strength, described as sometimes standing in opposition to the races of the tribes of the Æsir and Vanir, although they frequently mingle with or intermarry with these. Their otherworldly homeland is Jötunheimr, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology, separated from Midgard, the world of humans, by high mountains or dense forests. Other place names are also associated with them, including Niflheimr, Utgarðr and Járnviðr.
- A Jötunn, sometimed anglicized as Jotun (pronounced yōtən), plural: jötnar or Jotnar, is a giant in Norse mythology, a member of a race of nature spirits with superhuman strength, described as standing in opposition to the races of Æsir and Vanir, although they frequently mingled with or were even married to these. Their otherworldly homeland is Jötunheimr, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology, separated from Midgard, the world of humans, by high mountains or dense forests. Other place names are also associated with them, including Niflheimr, Utgarðr and Járnviðr. In some legends and myths they are described as having the same height as humans.
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| - A Jötunn, sometimed anglicized as Jotun (pronounced yōtən), plural: jötnar or Jotnar, is a giant in Norse mythology, a member of a race of nature spirits with superhuman strength, described as standing in opposition to the races of Æsir and Vanir, although they frequently mingled with or were even married to these. Their otherworldly homeland is Jötunheimr, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology, separated from Midgard, the world of humans, by high mountains or dense forests. Other place names are also associated with them, including Niflheimr, Utgarðr and Járnviðr. In some legends and myths they are described as having the same height as humans. In later Scandinavian folklore, the nature spirit called Troll (deriving from the term for 'magic') takes over many of the functions of the more ancient concept of Jötunn. The mountain range of southern Norway is likewise called in Norwegian Jotunheimen or the Jotunheim Mountains.
- A jötunn (anglicized jotunn or jotun ; from Old Norse jǫtunn was a giant in Norse mythology, a member of a race of nature spirits with superhuman strength, described as sometimes standing in opposition to the races of the tribes of the Æsir and Vanir, although they frequently mingle with or intermarry with these. Their otherworldly homeland is Jötunheimr, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology, separated from Midgard, the world of humans, by high mountains or dense forests. Other place names are also associated with them, including Niflheimr, Utgarðr and Járnviðr. In later Scandinavian folklore, the nature spirits called trolls (deriving from the term for 'magic') take over many of the functions of the more ancient concept of the jötunn. The mountain range Jotunheimen in southern Norway was named after the mythological Jǫtunheimar by the poet Åsmund Olavsson Vinje in the 1860s.
- The jötunn ("devourer"; plural jötnar), also referred to as ettin, thurs, or giants (risar in Old Norse), are primordial forces in Norse Mythology that represent chaos. Although not inherently evil, their chaotic nature is a threat to the order of the gods which is needed for the worlds of Yggdrasil to be.
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