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"