Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage.
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Jotun
//ˈjəʊtʊn//
Synonyms for "jotun" (2 found)
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9 translations across 9 languages.
Danish
1 entries- jætte noun (member of a race of giants)
Faroese
1 entries- jøtun noun (member of a race of giants)
Finnish
1 entries- jotuni noun (member of a race of giants)
German
1 entries- Jötunn noun (member of a race of giants)
Icelandic
1 entries- jötunn noun (member of a race of giants)
Marathi
1 entries- योटुन noun (member of a race of giants)
Old Norse
1 entries- jǫtunn noun (member of a race of giants)
Russian
1 entries- ётун noun (member of a race of giants)
Swedish
1 entries- jätte noun (member of a race of giants)
Sample sentences
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When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns.
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When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki.
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The world in which the æsir and jötnar play out their struggle has its own set of place-names but is essentially recognizable as Scandinavia. There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.
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