Aurboda- Norse GiantGiant

The Hall of Gymir

Hyndluljóð names Aurboða as a mountain-giantess, wife of Gymir and mother of Gerðr. Her one living moment in the sources comes in Skínismál. Skírnir rides to Gymir's hall to woo Gerðr on behalf of the lovesick Freyr, and the earth shakes at his approach. Gerðr hears the trembling and asks what force could make the ground quake and the hall shudder. Her mother tells her to invite the stranger inside. Faced with a god's emissary and a quaking earth, Aurboða's counsel is hospitality.

Grandmother of Kings

Gerðr married Freyr, and their son Fjölnir became the first of the Yngling kings, the legendary royal dynasty of Sweden. Snorri traces this line in the Ynglinga saga. Aurboða, a giantess from the mountain kindreds, stood at the root of a dynasty that ruled for generations.