The opening tracks tell the story of the giant Ymir, his death at the hands of Odin and his brothers, and the creation of the world.

Its highest peak is Ýmir (1462m), which takes its name from the giant Ýmir of Norse mythology.

This liquid substance is the origin of all living things: the first giant Ymir was conceived from eitr.

It is named for the giant Ymir, the forefather of the Jotuns.

The hrimthurs, who are made of frost and ice, are descendants of the world's giant Ymir.

This is a reference to the giant Ymir, said to be the father of the race of beings known as the Frost Giants, the primary enemies of the Asgardian "gods."

The name has often been interpreted as forn-jótr "ancient giant", and Karl Simrock (1869) because of this identified Formjotr with the primeval giant Ymir.

Regarding the situation, scholar Gabriel Turville-Petre comments (1964) that "at the beginning, accord to Snorri's text of the poem, there was nothing but a void, although according to other texts, the giant Ymir existed already then.

The nicknames Brimir and Bláinn refer to the corpse of the cosmic giant Ymir, who Óðinn and his brothers killed and out of his body created the cosmos.

In Norse mythology, Brimir is another name for the giant Ymir and also the name of a hall for the souls of the virtuous following the endtime conflict of Ragnarok.