**Stanza 3:** Ymir is mentioned as living early in time.
‘It was early in ages when Ymir lived;
there was neither sand nor sea nor cool waves;
no earth existed at all, nor sky above,
a gap of gaping abysses(?), and grass nowhere.
**Stanza 9:** Brimir is a possible alias for Ymir.
‘Then all the great powers, the most holy gods,
went to their doom-seats and deliberated about it:
who should devise the lord of dwarves
from Brimir’s blood and from blue limbs.
**Stanza 40-41:** It is described how the world was created form parts of Ymir.
40. ‘From Ymir’s flesh the earth was formed,
and from his “sweat” the sea,
boulders from his bones, trees from his hair,
and from his skull the sky.
41. ‘And from his eyelashes199 the kindly powers made
Miðgarðr for the sons of men,
and from his brain all those hard-hearted
clouds were created.
**Stanza 21:** After Odinn ask “whence the earth and sky above first came” and Vafþrúðnir responds.
Vafþrúðnir said:
From Ymir’s flesh the earth was formed,
and from his bones boulders,
the sky from the skull of the frost-cold giant,
and from his “sweat” the sea.’
**Stanza 28:** After Odinn ask who was the oldest of Ymir’s kin.
Óðinn said:
28. ‘Say this as the fifth thing, since they call you wise,
and you, Vafþrúðnir, may know:
who was the oldest of the Æsir or of Ymir’s kin
in early days.’
**Stanza 33:** all jötnar are descended from Ymir.
‘All seeresses are [descended] from Viðólfr,
all wizards from Vilmeiðr,
message(?)-bearing ones from Svarthǫfði,
all giants are descended from Ymir.
Chapter 4-5(p.10): Ymir is introduced as the first being, formed from the dripping rime in Ginnungagap. The frost-giants are descended from him.
...it became the form of a man, and he was given the name Ymir. But the frost-giants call him Aurgelmir, and from him are descended the generations of frost-giants...
Chapter 5-7(p.11): High explains that the Æsir do not consider Ymir a god, as he was evil. He sweated a male and female from under his arm, and one leg begot a son with the other, creating the frost-giants. He was nourished by the milk of the primeval cow, Auðhumla. The sons of Bor (Odin, Vili, and Ve) kill Ymir, and his blood causes a great flood that drowns all the frost-giants except Bergelmir and his household.
Then High replied: ‘Not at all do we acknowledge him to be a god. He was evil and all his descendants. We call them frost-giants. The ancient frost-giant, him we call Ymir.’ [...]
Then High replied: ‘Bor’s sons killed the giant Ymir. And when he fell, so much blood flowed from his wounds that with it they drowned all the race of frost-giants...