"giant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The opening tracks tell the story of the giant Ymir, his death at the hands of Odin and his brothers, and the creation of the world.
- Its highest peak is Ýmir (1462m), which takes its name from the giant Ýmir of Norse mythology.
- This liquid substance is the origin of all living things: the first giant Ymir was conceived from eitr.
- It is named for the giant Ymir, the forefather of the Jotuns.
- The hrimthurs, who are made of frost and ice, are descendants of the world's giant Ymir.
- This is a reference to the giant Ymir, said to be the father of the race of beings known as the Frost Giants, the primary enemies of the Asgardian "gods."
- The name has often been interpreted as forn-jótr "ancient giant", and Karl Simrock (1869) because of this identified Formjotr with the primeval giant Ymir.
- Regarding the situation, scholar Gabriel Turville-Petre comments (1964) that "at the beginning, accord to Snorri's text of the poem, there was nothing but a void, although according to other texts, the giant Ymir existed already then.
- The nicknames Brimir and Bláinn refer to the corpse of the cosmic giant Ymir, who Óðinn and his brothers killed and out of his body created the cosmos.
- In Norse mythology, Brimir is another name for the giant Ymir and also the name of a hall for the souls of the virtuous following the endtime conflict of Ragnarok.
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