Editing Bergelmir (section)

== Attestations ==
In ''[[Vafþrúðnismál]]'' (The Lay of [[Vafþrúðnir]]), Bergelmir is portrayed as the son of [[Þrúðgelmir]] and the grandson of the first {{lang|non|jötunn}} [[Ymir|Aurgelmir]] (Ymir). When [[Odin]] asks [[Vafþrúðnir|Vafthrúdnir]] who is the oldest among the [[æsir]] and the [[Jötunn|jötnar]],{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=74}} the wise {{lang|non|jötunn}} responds that:
{{Poem quote|text=A great many years before the earth was formed,
Bergelmir was born;
Thrúdgelmir was the father of this one,
And Aurgelmir the grandfather.|char=|sign=|title=''[[Vafthrúdnismál]]''|source=29, trans. [[John Lindow|J. Lindow]], 2002.}}
In the same poem, Odin then asks Vafthrúdnir about the monstrous birth of the offspring of Aurgelmir,{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=74}} and Vafthrúdnir responds:
{{Poem quote|text=A great many years before the earth was formed,
Bergelmir was born;
What I first remember is when the wise giant
Was placed on a ''lúðr''.|char=|sign=|title=''Vafthrúdnismál''|source=35, trans. [[John Lindow|J. Lindow]], 2002.}}

In ''[[Gylfaginning]]'' (The Beguiling of [[Gylfi]]), while the blood of [[Ymir]] (Aurgelmir) is flooding the earth after the sons of [[Borr]] (Odin, [[Vili and Vé|Vili, and Vé]]) have killed him, Bergelmir is likewise pictured as escaping on a ''lúðr'' with his wife to re-found the frost-{{lang|non|jötunn}} race.{{Sfn|Orchard|1997|p=18}}{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=|pp=74, 324}}

{{Poem quote|text=The sons of Bor killed Ymir the giant. And when he fell, so much blood gushed from his wounds, that  with it all of the frost giants were killed, except one who got away with his family. The giants called that one Bergelmir. He got up on his ''lúðr'' along with his wife and saved himself there, and from them come the families of the frost giants.|char=|sign=|title=''[[Gylfaginning]]''|source=trans. [[John Lindow|J. Lindow]], 2002.}}

Based upon Snorri's account, the [[Old Norse]] word ''lúðr'' might have referred to a 'coffin',{{Sfn|Orchard|1997|p=18}}{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=75}} a 'cradle',{{Sfn|Orchard|1997|p=18}} a 'chest', or some wooden part of a mill.{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=75}}