Hyrrokkin (6)
Hyrrokkin (non.)
The giantess who was summoned to push Baldr's funeral ship off of the shore because the gods were not strong enough. She arrived riding on a wolf and using snakes for reigns.
The giantess who was summoned to push Baldr's funeral ship off of the shore because the gods were not strong enough. She arrived riding on a wolf and using snakes for reigns.
Hyrrokkin is referenced in:
Digital image of the illustration on page 285 of Karl
Gjellerup's 1895 edition of the Poetic Edda, entitled Den Ældre Eddas Gudesange.
Digital image of the illustration on p. 370 in Thomas Bartholin's Antiquitatum danicarum de causis contemptae a
Danis adhuc gentilibus mortis libri tres
.