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Harðgreipr
Harðgreipr (or Harthgrepa; Old Norse: [ˈhɑrðˌɡrɛipz̠], 'Hard-grip') is a jötunn in Norse mythology. In Gesta Danorum, she is the daughter of the jötunn Vagnophtus and the nurse of the Danish hero Hadingus.
The Old Norse name 'Harðgreipr' has been translated as 'hard-grip'. It is a compound formed with the adjective harðr ('hard, strong') attached to the root greip- ('hand [with spread thumbs], handle'). The meaning could be explained by the episode in which Harthgrepa (Harðgreipr) grips a gigantic hand that is trying to enter her shelter.
The 13th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus gives her name as Harthgrepa in Gesta Danorum.
In Gesta Danorum (Deed of Danes), Harthgrepa (Harðgreipr) becomes the wet-nurse, lover and road companion of the Danish hero Hadingus (Hadding), who his seeking revenge after the murder of his father the king Gram.
Harthgrepa, the child of Vagnhofth, tried to soften his [Hadding's] stout spirit by her allurement to love, with repeated assertions that he must pay her the first gift of his nuptial bed by marrying her, since she had nurtured him in his infancy with particular devotion and given him his first rattle.
— Gesta Danorum, 1.6.2, transl. P. Fisher, 2015.
Harthgrepa is trying to seduce Hadingus, but the latter answers that "the size her body [is] unwieldy for human embrace". Since she is a jötunn, however, Harthgrepa is able to disguise as a man and accompany Hadingus on his journey.
'Don't let the sight of my strange largeness affect you. I can make the substance of my body smaller or greater, now thin, now capacious ... I become huge to fright the fierce, but small to lie with men.' ... With these declarations she won over Hadding to sleep with her and burned so strongly with love for the young man that, when she discovered that he yearned to revisit his own country, she lost no time in accompanying him, dressed like a man...
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Harðgreipr
Harðgreipr (or Harthgrepa; Old Norse: [ˈhɑrðˌɡrɛipz̠], 'Hard-grip') is a jötunn in Norse mythology. In Gesta Danorum, she is the daughter of the jötunn Vagnophtus and the nurse of the Danish hero Hadingus.
The Old Norse name 'Harðgreipr' has been translated as 'hard-grip'. It is a compound formed with the adjective harðr ('hard, strong') attached to the root greip- ('hand [with spread thumbs], handle'). The meaning could be explained by the episode in which Harthgrepa (Harðgreipr) grips a gigantic hand that is trying to enter her shelter.
The 13th-century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus gives her name as Harthgrepa in Gesta Danorum.
In Gesta Danorum (Deed of Danes), Harthgrepa (Harðgreipr) becomes the wet-nurse, lover and road companion of the Danish hero Hadingus (Hadding), who his seeking revenge after the murder of his father the king Gram.
Harthgrepa, the child of Vagnhofth, tried to soften his [Hadding's] stout spirit by her allurement to love, with repeated assertions that he must pay her the first gift of his nuptial bed by marrying her, since she had nurtured him in his infancy with particular devotion and given him his first rattle.
— Gesta Danorum, 1.6.2, transl. P. Fisher, 2015.
Harthgrepa is trying to seduce Hadingus, but the latter answers that "the size her body [is] unwieldy for human embrace". Since she is a jötunn, however, Harthgrepa is able to disguise as a man and accompany Hadingus on his journey.
'Don't let the sight of my strange largeness affect you. I can make the substance of my body smaller or greater, now thin, now capacious ... I become huge to fright the fierce, but small to lie with men.' ... With these declarations she won over Hadding to sleep with her and burned so strongly with love for the young man that, when she discovered that he yearned to revisit his own country, she lost no time in accompanying him, dressed like a man...
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