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In Norse mythology, Surtr (Old Norse "black" [1] "the swarthy one", [2] Surtur in modern Icelandic), also sometimes written Surt in English, [3] is a jötunn; he is the greatest of the fire giants, who serves as the guardian of Muspelheim which is along with Niflheim, the only two realms to exist before the beginning of time. [4]
Muspelheim was described as a hot and glowing land of fire, home to the fire giants, and guarded by Surtr, with his flaming sword. It is featured in both the creation and destruction stories of Norse myth. According to the Prose Edda, a great time before the Earth was made, Niflheim existed.
Fire-giants are the dwellers in the Fire-world Muspellheim who, led by Surt, will come forth to fight the gods at Ragnarock. Surt’s fire will destroy the world; but until then he sits at the frontier of Muspell, the region of heat, to defend it, brandishing a flaming sword.
Surt (Old Norse Surtr, “Black,” [1] presumably a reference to his charred appearance) is a fire giant who leads his kin into battle against the Aesir and Vanir gods during Ragnarok, the destruction of the cosmos. His particular fate is to kill the god Freyr and to be slain by him in turn.
20 gru 2022 · Surtr is the ruler of the fiery realm of Muspelheim and prophesized to fight on the side of evil during the huge battle of Ragnarök, the Norse end of the world. Surtr is a primeval jötunn, half-brother of Ymir and Audhumbla’s half-brother, and the chaos and fire incarnate.
20 kwi 2023 · In Norse mythology, Surtur is a fire giant who is associated with fire, destruction, and the end of the world. He is said to dwell in the fiery realm of Muspelheim and is often depicted as a powerful and fearsome figure who wields a flaming sword.
23 lis 2020 · Surt was the leader of the fire giants, a type of jötnar that were almost entirely different than those that occurred in other myths. Instead of Jötenheim, they lived in the primordial fires of Muspelheim.
