jotun

jotun englanniksi

1. Jotun

1. A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.

2. (quote-book), 64, Street|New Bond Street|year=1831|page=279|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1UJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA279|oclc=3573833|passage=Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.

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4. 1967, Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire|Ingri D'Aulaire; Edgar Parin D'aulaire, “Loki, the God of the Jotun Race”, in ''Norse Gods and Giants'', Garden City, N.Y.: (publisher)|Doubleday, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-0-385-04908-5; republished as ''D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths'', New York, N.Y.: New York Review of Books|New York Review of Books, 2005, Standard Book Number|ISBN 978-1-59017-125-7, page 42:

When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki.

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