Jotunn

A giant of Norse myth (Old Norse jötunn, plural jötnar), the race that "from Ymir sprang", living in Jotunheim across the river Ifing from the gods, kin to them by marriage and their enemies at the end of the world. Bellows translates the word as "giant" and "frost-giant"; the giants are wise (Vafthruthnir), dangerous (Thrym, Hymir) and, in Skadi and Gerth, the gods' wives.