Aurboða
Aurboða (also Aurboda; Old Norse: [ˈɔurˌboðɑ] "gravel-bidder" or "gravel-offerer") is a jötunn in Norse mythology. She is married to the jötunn Gymir and is the mother of Gerðr.[1][2][3]
Name
The origin of the name Aurboða is unclear. The second part is certainly related to the Old Norse verb bjóða ('to offer'), but the meaning of the first element has been debated.[4][1]
Most scholars connect it to the Old Norse
In
The name Aurboða is sometimes anglicized as Aurboda.[2][3]
Attestation
In both Hyndluljód (The Lay of Hyndla) and Gylfaginning (Beguiling of Gylfi), Aurboða is portrayed as the mother of the jötunn Gerðr.[3]
Frey possessed Gerd, she was the daughter of Gymir [corrected from Geymir]
Of the race of giants, and of Aurboda.— Hyndluljód, 30:5–8, transl. J. Lindow, 2002.
There was someone called Gymir, and his wife Aurboda. She was of the race of mountain-giants. Gerd is their daughter, the most beautiful of all women.
— Gylfaginning, 35–37, transl. A. Faulkes, 1987.
See also
- Angrboða, another female jötun
Notes
References
- ISBN 978-90-04-05436-3.
- ISBN 978-0-19-983969-8.
- ISBN 978-0-304-34520-5.
- ISBN 3-520-36801-3.