Hræsvelgr

"Corpse-eater." A jötunn who sits in an eagle's guise at the northward end of heaven. The wind rises from under his wings when he stretches them:

Hræsvelg he is called,

who at the end of heaven sits,

a Jötun in an eagle's plumage:

from his wings comes,

it is said, the wind,

that over all men passes.

His name is found in the list of jötnar the Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál.

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