Gerda
Frost giantess, daughter of Gymir and Angurboda, wooed and wed by the god Frey.
Gerda is a frost giantess in Norse tradition, daughter of Gymir and Angurboda, and wife of the god Frey. She is attested in Myths of the Norsemen as a figure whose giant lineage complicated Frey's courtship, since she was "a relative of the murdered giant Thiassi" and Frey "feared she would never view his suit with favour" (Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, Contents > Chapter Ix: Frey).
The single attestation in the current extraction data comes from Myths of the Norsemen, a secondary retelling that synthesizes Eddic material. The passage frames Gerda primarily through Frey's anxiety about her reception of his suit, emphasizing her giant parentage and kinship with Thiassi as obstacles to the match (Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, Contents > Chapter Ix: Frey). The broader Eddic tradition, particularly the Skirnismal, presents a more developed narrative in which Skirnir is dispatched to woo Gerda on Frey's behalf, though this fuller account is not directly attested in the current extraction data.
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