Hrímgerðr

"Frost-Gerd." The daughter of the jötunn Hati, attested in Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. She engages Helgi Hjörvarðsson and his companion Atli Indmundsson in a heated contest of flyting after Helgi had slain her father. She also boasts to be responsible for the deaths of the sons of a certain Hlövarð. They trade insults throughout the night and in the morning she is turned into stone:

It is now day, Hrimgerd!

and Atli has thee detained

to thy loss of life.

A ludicrous haven-mark

'twill, indeed, be,

where thou a stone-image standest.

The name appears in the list of troll-wives in the Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál.

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