Ymir The Frost King, The Sea Giant of Germanic Norse Mythology
Name:
Ymir
Known
Aliases: The Frost King, The Sea Giant
Culture: Germanic Norse Myth
Gender: Male
Classification:
Giant
Element:
Sea
Literature:
The Prose Edda
Ymir
birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat
a six-headed being.
Ymir
was slain by the gods Odin Vili and VE and his body was used as raw material
for the creation of the world.
They fashioned Earth from
his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, from his
hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and
from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives,
The dwarfs were given life
from his blood.
