Editing Þrúðgelmir (section)

==Attestations==
Þrúðgelmir appears in the poem ''[[Vafþrúðnismál]]'' from the ''[[Poetic Edda]]''. When [[Odin]] (speaking under the assumed name [[List of names of Odin|Gagnrad]]) asks who was the eldest of the [[Æsir]] or of the {{lang|non|jötnar}} in bygone days, [[Vafþrúðnir]] answers:

:"Uncountable winters before the earth was made,
:then [[Bergelmir]] was born,
:Thrudgelmir was his father,
:and Aurgelmir his grandfather."
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::—''Vafþrúðnismál'' <small>(29)</small><ref name=LARRINGTON>Larrington (1999).</ref>

According to Rudolf Simek, Þrúðgelmir is identical to the six-headed son that was begotten by Aurgelmir's feet (''Vafþrúðnismál'', <small>33</small>),<ref>Simek (1996).</ref> but the fact that (apart from the ''[[þulur]]'') he is mentioned in only one source led John Lindow to suggest that he might have been invented by the poet.<ref>Lindow (2002).</ref> Additionally, the identification of one with the other cannot be established with certainty since, according to stanza 33, Aurgelmir had more than one direct male offspring:

:"They said that under the frost-giant's arms
:a [[Ymir's daughter|girl]] and [[Ymir's son|boy]] grew together;
:one foot with the other, of the wise giant,
:begot a six-headed son."<ref name=LARRINGTON/>

Þrúðgelmir was drowned in his father's blood.