Bestla’s Family Tree

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Family

• Borr(spouse),Odin(child),Ve(child),Vili(child)— Marriage

  Borr and the giantess Bestla produced three sons — Odin, Vili, and Vé — who together slew Ymir and shaped the cosmos from his body.

• Bölthorn(parent)

  Bestla is the daughter of the giant Bölthorn, through whom the blood of the primordial jötnar passed into the line of the Æsir gods.

Member of

• Jötnar

  The jötnar are the primordial race of giants descended from Ymir, dwelling in Jötunheimr. They stand as the eternal adversaries and reluctant kin of the Æsir — many gods count giantesses among their mothers, yet the two races clash across every age until Ragnarök.