Geirröd (giant)
Geirröd 's German mythology one of the prince of the giant provided with Thor is hostile. Eilif Gudrunarson wrote a poem on Thor after 976, in which Thor went to Geirröd. Snorri took up this in the Skáldskaparmál .
In the Geirrödsaga, Loki flies in Freya's falcon robe to the giant Geirröd and is captured by him. Loki regains his freedom after three months after he had to promise Geirröd to bring Thor without his hammer Mjöllnir and without his strength belt Megingiard into the hall of Geirröd. However, Thor learns from Grid on his journey that Geirröd wants to kill him. Grid now equips him with her own strength belt, staff and iron gloves. Armed in this way, he first kills Geirröd's daughters Gjalp and Greip. Geirröd then throws a glowing piece of iron at Thor, which Thor catches with his iron gloves. Geirröd seeks cover behind an iron pillar, but Thor throws the piece of iron back so forcefully that it breaks through the pillar, Geirröd and the wall behind it.
literature
- Wolfgang Golther : Handbook of Germanic mythology . Phaidon, Essen, ISBN 3-88851-138-0 .
- Jan Alexander van Nahl: Geirrøðr. In: Heinrich Beck et al. (Ed.), Germanic Antiquity Online . European cultural history up to the High Middle Ages 02/2013 (DOI 10.1515 / gao_12).