Jötuns, a race of giants in the Norse mythology, “huge, shaggy beings of a demonic character, representing the dark hostile Powers of Nature, such as Frost, Fire, Sea-tempest, who dwelt in Jötunheim, a distant, dark chaotic land ... in perpetual internecine feud with the gods, or friendly powers, such as Summer-heat and the Sun, and who dwelt far apart.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Jötunheim * Joubert, Barthélemi