Loðinn

"Shaggy." A jötunn mentioned in the eddic poem Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar. The hero Helgi Hjörvarðsson threatens the giantess Hrímgerðr to have her wed to the obviously repulsive Loðinn:

Lodin is named he who shall thee possess,

thou to mankind art loathsome.

In Tholley dwells that Thurs,

that dog-wise Jötun,

of all rock-dwellers the worst:

he is a fitting man for thee.

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