Brimir

"Bloody-moisture." A jötunn, possibly an alternate name for the primeval giant Ymir, out of whose blood the race of dwarfs was made, according to Völuspá, stanza 9:

Then sought the gods

their assembly-seats,

The holy ones,

and council held,

To find who should raise

the race of dwarfs

Out of Brimir's blood

and the legs of Bláin.

— Bellows trans.

Later in the poem it appears to refer to a beer hall of the jötnar, or to its owner. It stands in Ókólnir:

37. Northward a hall in Nithavellir Of gold there rose for Sindri's race And in Okolnir another stood, Where the giant Brimir his beer-hall had. — Bellows trans.

41. On the north there stood, on Nida-fells, a hall of gold, for Sindri's race; and another stood in Okolnir, the Jötuns beer-hall which Brimir hight. — Thorpe trans.

Snorri Sturluson adds that there is plenteous abundance of good drink, for them that esteem that a pleasure, in the hall which is called Brimir. In this hall, and in the hall Sindri, shall dwell good men and pure in heart.

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