Eggthér

"Edge-servant." A jötunn, the joyous watchman of a giantess. He sits on a hill near Járnviðr, the Ironwood, playing his harp:

There on a height sat,

striking a harp,

the giantess's watch,

the joyous Egdir;

by him crowed,

in the bird-wood,

the bright red cock,

which Fialar hight.

Eggthér is not mentioned elsewhere in the poems.

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