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Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Atlas Coeus Crius Cronus Demeter Dionysus Gaia Hades Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hyperion Iapetus Mnemosyne Oceanus Phobos Phoebe Poseidon Prometheus Rhea Tethys Themis Uranus Zeus
Bacchus Ceres Diana Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Pluto Venus Vesta Vulcan
Amun Anubis Aten Atum Babi Bastet Bes Geb Hapi hathor heqet Horus Isis Khepri Khnum Khonsu Maat Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Ra Seshat Seth Shu Sobek Thoth
Alfheim Baldur Freya Freyr Frigg Heimdallr Helheim Idun Jotunheim Loki Nerthus Njord Odin Thor Tyr
Aengus Arawn Badb Brigid Cailleach Ceridwen Cernunnos Cu Chulainn Dagda Danu Gwydion Herne the Hunter Lugh Medb Morrigan Neit Nuada Taliesin Taranis
Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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  4. Grid

Grid

Frost-giantess. Grid ("peace") was the friendly giantess who warned Thor of Geirrod's treachery. Thor was going to the home of Geirrod unarmed, since Loki had persuaded Thor to leave Mjollnir at home. Grid gave Thor her magic staff (Grídarvöl), as well as her own pair of iron gloves (Járngreipr) and her girdle of might (Megingjord). Thor used Grid's gifts to defeat and kill Geirrod and her evil daughters. See Geirrod in Of Thor and the Giants.

Grid was the mother of Vidar by Odin. Grid made special shoes for her son, which Vidar wore and defeated Fenrir, at Ragnarök.

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Grid, Gridr – "peace".

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Odin, Vidar, Thor, Loki, Geirrod.

Geirrod.

Jimmy Joe Timeless Myths

By Jimmy Joe

Giants:

  • • Ymir (Aurgelmir)
  • • Buri
  • • Bor
  • • Bergelmer
  • • Surt
  • • Vafthrudnir
  • • Hrimthurs
  • • Thrym
  • • Hrungnir
  • • Hymir
  • • Geirrod
  • • Thiassi
  • • Suttung
  • • Hrym
  • • Hræsvelg
  • • Aspilian
  • • Bestla
  • • Angerboda
  • • Skadi
  • • Grid
  • • Gerd
  • • Jarnsaxa
  • • Gunnlod
  • • Fenia & Menia
Geirrod

Geirrod

One day, while Loki was flying through the wood in the form of a falcon, he was captured by the frost-giant named Geirrod. Geirrod confined Loki within a chest for three months, almost starving Loki to death. Geirrod refused to release Loki until ...

September 10th, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Geirrod

Geirrod

A frost giant. Geirrod ("spear-rider") was the father of two giantess – Gialp ("yelper") and Greip ("gripper"). Geirrod and his two daughters tried to kill Thor. Though Geirrod managed to get Thor to leave behind his weapon, Thor received an unbre...

August 27th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Groa

Groa

Sorceress and a sibyl. Groa was wife of Aurvandil the Bold. She appeared in the Prose Edda, in the myth where Thor fought the giant Hrungnir . Although Thor killed the giant with the Mjollnir , a piece of Hrungnir's whetstone was lodged in Thor's ...

September 28th, 2003 • Jimmy Joe
Vidar

Vidar

Vidar was the son of Odin and the giantess Grid "peace". Vidar was known as the silent god or silent As, because he rarely talked. Vidar was thesecond strongest As after Thor . Vidar lived in Brushwood. Brushwood was either the name of his hall or...

July 23rd, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Gerd

Gerd

Gerd was a giantess who became wife of the Vanir Freyr . Gerd was the daughter of the mountain giant Gymir and Aurboda. Gerd may have had an unnamed brother who was killed. Freyr fell in love with Gerd when he sat on Hlidskialf, Odin's throne in t...

August 27th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Jörd (Fjörgyn)

Jörd (Fjörgyn)

Goddess of the earth. Jörd (Jord or Iord) was a personification of Earth. Jörd was also called Fjörgyn (Fjorgyn), Hlódyn (Hlodyn) or Erda. Jörd was identified with the Germanic earth goddess Hertha, also known as Nerthus. Jörd was the daughter of ...

July 23rd, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Giants

Giants

The Giants were the chief enemies of the gods, particularly the Aesir. In the Norse world, a giant was called Jotun or Iotun . There were several different types of giants. The frost-giants were the most common giants; they lived in Jotunheim , on...

August 27th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Giant of Clay

Giant of Clay

Odin encountered the giant Hrungnir at Griotunagardar (frontier of Giantland), where he told the frost-giant there was no better horse in Giantland than his own ( Sleipnir ). Angry at this challenge, Hrungnir pursued Odin on his own horse Gullfaxi...

September 10th, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Angerboda

Angerboda

Frost giantess. Through Loki, she was the mother of Hel the goddess of the dead, the Midgard Serpent (Jörmungand), and Fenrir the giant wolf.

August 27th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Thrud

Thrud

Goddess of power and strength. Thrud was the daughter of Thor and Sif . Thor prevented the marriage between Thrud and a dwarf named Alvis; her father delayed the wedding before turning the dwarf into stone.

July 23rd, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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