Aurboða

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Aurboða (anglicized Aurboda) is in Norse mythology a giantess. Wife to the mountain giant Gymir, and mother of Gerd and Beli. Aurboða is also the name of one of nine maidens who sit at the knees of Menglöd in the poem Svipdagsmál.

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