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[5] Hrímþurs: A frost-giant (see Note to st. 1/5). In Vafþr 33/2 this is a name for Ymir, but elsewhere in eddic poems hrímþurs is found only as a common noun in the pl. form (hrímþursar ‘frost-giants’; Grí 31/5; Hávm 109/2).