The Poetic Edda on Jotunheim

The > Volume I > Introductory Note

• attestation: The stanza references wealth or gifts involving Jotunheim.

  "8. In their dwellings at peace | they played at tables, Of gold no lack | did the gods then know,— Till thither came up | giant-maids three, Huge of might, | out of Jotunheim."

• attestation: The stanza describes warfare or combat involving Jotunheim.

  "48. How fare the gods? | how fare the elves? All Jotunheim groans, | the gods are at council; Loud roar the dwarfs | by the doors of stone, The masters of the rocks: | would you know yet more?"

The > part in a few of the Eddic poems. > Pronouncing Index

• attestation: Jotunheim is the world of the giants

  "Jot′-un-heim, the world of the giants"