Hrímgerðr
# Hrímgerðr

Hrímgerðr (also Hrimgerd or Hrimgerdr; Old Norse:, "frost-Gerðr") is a jötunn in Norse mythology.

## Name

The Old Norse name Hrímgerðr has been translated as 'frost-Gerðr'.

## Attestation

In Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Hrímgerðr announces herself as the daughter of the jötunn Hati.

   My name is Hrimgerd, my father’s name Hati, whom I knew as the most mighty of giants, many a bride he had snatched from their homes, till Helgi hewed him down.

After the hero Helgi Hundingsbane kills her father, Hrímgerðr harasses him, and Atli Idmundsson engages her in a contest of flyting until she turns into stone in the sunrise.

   [Hrimgerd said:] ‘You would neigh, if you weren’t a gelding: Hrimgerd tosses her tail; I think your heart is in your arse, Atli, though you have a stallion’s voice.’
   [Atli said:] ‘You’d soon leam what a stallion I was in strength, if I stepped on shore: you’d take a great pasting, if I so wished, and lower your tail, Hrimgerd.’
