Bergelmir

Mark Isaak

Flood Stories from Around the World

The giant Bergelmir escaped, with his wife and children, on a boat made from a hollowed tree trunk.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Deluge Legends of Other Nations

Blood flows from his wounds in such abundance that all the race of giants is drowned in it except Bergelmir, who saves himself, with his wife, in a boat, and reproduces the race.

Ignatius Donnelly

The Deluge Legends (I)

Scandinavian Edda: Bergelmir survives a flood of blood in a boat.

Ymir and the creation of the world

His death brought about a cataclysmic flood from his blood, drowning all the frost giants except for two, Bergelmir and his wife, who escaped in a wooden box to continue their kind.