Skrymir
Also known as: Útgarða-Loki, Skrýmir
Basic account
The vast wanderer whose glove was a hall: master of illusions.
Account
Skrymir is the giant so large that Thor and his companions sleep the night in his glove and take it for a hall. He is also not real, and finding that out is the humiliation at the centre of the story.
Motifs
- Defeated by cunning
- The wild one of the uplands
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What is disputed
Because Snorri is the only substantial witness, how much of this is inherited tradition and how much is his own literary construction cannot be settled.
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Sources
- Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda: Gylfaginning 44-47
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