Surtur

Surtur mit dem Flammenschwerte (Surtur with the flaming sword), illustration by F. W. Heine for 1882, Wilhelm Wägner, Nordisch-germanische Götter und Helden, based on a plaster frieze designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhard (1859)

Meaning

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.
  • A moon of Saturn.

Origin

  • From Old Norse Surtr.

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