jotun

1. (Norse mythology) A member of a race of giants who usually stand in opposition to the Æsir and especially to Thor.Examples: "Some with disdain his reasons heard, / While others wisht the cause deferr'd. / Then Ormur spake, in speech of scorn, / Ormur, the friend of Asbiorn, / Who, daring singly to engage, / A jotun, proved his fatal rage."; "When Christianity became the religion of the people the trolls gradually assumed something of the role formerly played by the more powerful Jotuns."; "When Odin was still young – before he had hanged himself on Yggdrasil and drunk from the Well of Wisdom – his eyes had fallen on a jotun named Loki."Norse