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Jotunheim
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thumb|10th-century picture stone from the [[Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a female (or ) riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin.]]
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11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Attestations
- Poetic Edda
- Gylfaginning
- Skáldskaparmál
- Position in cosmology
- See also
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Primary
- Secondary
thumb|10th-century picture stone from the [[Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a female (or ) riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin.]]
The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr ; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nordic mythology inhabited by the jötnar (relatives of the gods, in English sometimes inaccurately called "giants").