Surtur
Surtur proper noun: a very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.
Proper noun
Surtur
- A very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.
- (Muspelheim, we suppose, with its numerous fiery inhabitants, and their mighty chief Surtur, the dark, the incomprehensible, the great evil principle, had no beginning; or if it had, the Odinian theologians were unacquainted with it.)1839, Samuel Astley Dunham, History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, volume 2, page 44
- 1847 [1770], Paul Henri Mallet, Thomas Percy (translator), I. A. Blackwell, Walter Scott (editors), Northern Antiquities, [1756, Paul Henri Mallet, Monuments de la mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves], page 496,
We must also remark, that in the Eddaic...
- A moon of Saturn.
Forms of Surtur
| alternative form | Surtr |
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Origin of Surtur
From Old Norse Surtr (“the swarthy one”).
Questions about Surtur
- What does Surtur mean?
- Surtur means a very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.
- What part of speech is Surtur?
- Surtur is a proper noun.
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