The Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX) on Geirrod
The Danish History, > Book Eight.
attestation: The expedition sought Geirrod's dwelling, a place no mortal had reached and returned from before
"he hoped for a great increase of renown if he ventured on a wholly unattempted"
attestation: The company approached Geirrod's hall through a desolate and frightening landscape
"As twilight approached, a man of extraordinary bigness greeted the sailors by their names, and came among them."
attestation: The expedition entered the realm of Geirrod, which Saxo rationalizes as a terrestrial place in Eastern Europe
"telling them that this was Gudmund, the brother of Geirrod, and the most faithful guardian in perils of all men who landed in that spot."
attestation: Geirrod's house was ruinous throughout and filled with a violent abominable stench
"Inside, the house was seen to be ruinous throughout, and filled with a violent and abominable reek"
attestation: The hall teemed with everything disgusting: the doorposts were begrimed with soot and filth
"it also teemed with everything that could disgust the eye or the mind: the door-posts were begrimed"
attestation: The walls were covered with the blackened skins of serpents and hideous creatures
"spear-heads, the flooring was covered with snakes and bespattered with all manner of uncleanliness."
attestation: Geirrod himself sat pierced through with a weapon, his body decayed but still animate
"to drive red-hot irons through the vitals of Geirrod, who strove with him, and that the iron had slid further, torn up the mountain, and battered through its side; while the women had been stricken by the might of his thunderbolts, and had been punished (so he declared) for their attempt on the"
attestation: Three women sat near Geirrod with their backs broken, their bodies still twitching with residual life
"to drive red-hot irons through the vitals of Geirrod, who strove with him, and that the iron had slid further, torn up the mountain, and battered through its side; while the women had been stricken by the might of his thunderbolts, and had been punished (so he declared) for their attempt on the"