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[3] Vindsvalr: Lit. ‘wind-cold one’ (from vindr m. ‘wind’ and the adj. svalr ‘cool, cold’). This giant is the father of winter (Vafþr 27/1-2), and according to Gylf (SnE 2005, 21), he is otherwise called Vindlóni.