Þrúðgelmir’s Family Tree

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Family

• Bergelmir(child)

  Þrúðgelmir fathered Bergelmir, the frost giant who survived the flood of Ymir's blood and became ancestor of all the later jötnar.

• Ymir(parent)— Miraculous

  Ymir's legs begot Þrúðgelmir, a six-headed frost giant, without any mate — the primordial giant's body generating offspring from itself in the earliest age of the world.