Crossword-Solution: HYMIR 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The fishing for the whale recalls that which is told in the Older Edda (Hymiskrida, 21), where Hymir succeeds in hooking two of these fish:-- "Then he and Hymir rowed out to sea.

Hymir inquires,-- "Wilt thou do half the work with me? either the whales home to the dwelling bear, Or the boat fast bind?" Kitpooseagunow drew up a whale.

But what matter? Are Englishmen hedge-gnats, who only take their sport when the sun shines? Is it not, on the contrary, symbolical of our national character, that almost all our field amusements are wintry ones? Our fowling, our hunting, our punt-shooting (pastime for Hymir himself and the frost giants)--our golf and skating,--our very cricket, and boat-racing, and jack and grayling fishing, carried on till we are fairly frozen out.

Then Thor went up to a herd of oxen belonging to Hymir, and capturing the largest bull, called Himinbrjot, he wrung off its head, and went with it to the sea-shore.

The giant Hymir, it is said, turned pale when he saw the serpent, quaked, and, seeing that the sea ran in and out of the skiff, just as Thor raised aloft his mace, took out his knife and cut the line so that the serpent at once sank under the water.