Hrímgerðr (also Hrimgerd or Hrimgerdr; Old Norse: [ˈhriːmˌɡerðz̠], "frost- Gerðr") is a jötunn in Norse mythology.
The Old Norse name Hrímgerðr has been translated as 'frost- Gerðr'. [1]
In Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, Hrímgerðr announces herself as the daughter of the jötunn Hati. [2]
My name is Hrimgerd, my father’s name Hati, whom I knew as the most mighty of giants, many a bride he had snatched from their homes, till Helgi hewed him down.
— Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, 17, transl. A. Orchard, 1997.
After the hero Helgi Hundingsbane kills her father, Hrímgerðr harasses him, and Atli Idmundsson engages her in a contest of flyting until she turns into stone in the sunrise. [3]
[Hrimgerd said:]
‘You would neigh, if you weren’t a gelding:
Hrimgerd tosses her tail;
I think your heart is in your arse, Atli,
though you have a stallion’s voice.’
[Atli said:]
‘You’d soon leam what a stallion I was
in strength, if I stepped on shore:
you’d take a great pasting, if I so wished,
and lower your tail, Hrimgerd.’— Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, transl. A. Orchard, 1997.