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Definition of Jotun
1. Noun. (Norse mythology) one of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir.
Definition of Jotun
1. Noun. (alternative capitalization of jotun) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative capitalization of jötun) ¹
3. Noun. (Norse mythology) member of a race of giants, usually standing in opposition to gods ¹
4. Noun. (alternative form of jotun) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jotun
1. a giant [n -S] - See also: giant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jotun
Literary usage of Jotun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1888)
"Difference between Swiss and Norwegian Mountains.—To Jotun Mountain. ...
THE wildest and highest mountains of Norway arc the Jotun, known also under the ..."
2. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1881)
"Difference between Swiss and Norwegian Mountains.—To Jotun Mountain. ...
THE wildest and highest mountains of Norway are the Jotun, known also under the ..."
3. The Viking Age: The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1889)
"Was Bergelmir born; The first I remember Is when that wisu Jotun Was iaid in the
flour-bin.3 In due course Ymir was slain by Odin. ..."
4. The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest by Ottilia Adelina Liljencrantz (1903)
"... THE Jotun Such is the love of women, Who falsehood meditate, As if one drove
not rough-shod On slippery ice A spirited two-year-old And unbroken horse. ..."
5. On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures by Thomas Carlyle (1849)
"Itime was not then as now a dead chemical thing, but a living Jotun or Devil;
the monstrous Jotun Rime drove home his Horses at night, sat 'combing their ..."
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