| Heithni.org - Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology (493 words) |
 | The frost-giants (rimethurses) are the primeval giants (gigantes) of the Teutonic mythology, so called because they sprang from the frost-being Ymir, whose feet by contact with each other begat their progenitor, the "strange-headed" monster Thrudgelmir (Vafþrúðnismál 29, 33). |
| From the Hvergelmir fountain there the Elivágar rivers flowed to the north and became hoar-frost and ice, which, melted by warmth from the south, were changed into drops of venom, which again became Ymir, called by the giants Aurgelmir (Vafþrúðnismál 30-31; Gylfaginning 5). |
| Thrudgelmir begat Bergelmir countless winters before the earth was made (Vafþrúðnismál 29; Gylfinning 7). |
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