So much blood pours from his wounds that every frost giant drowns except one, Bergelmir.
The Mesopotamian ark, Noah's ark, Deucalion's chest, the Inca box and Bergelmir's "ark" are boxes or chests more than boats.
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.
Scandinavian Edda: Bergelmir survives a flood of blood in a boat.