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Norse mythic characters

Gjálp (Old Norse: ; or Gialp) and Greip (Old Norse: Greip) are two jötnar in Norse mythology, and the daughters of the jötunn Geirröðr. They are killed by the thunder god Thor for trying to kill him.

The Old Norse name Gjálp has been variously translated as 'screamer', 'yelper'. It is related to the Icelandic gjálp ('roar; sea, wave'), and to the Old Norse gjalpa ('to brag'). Greipa is translated as ('gripper, grasper'). It derives from the Old Norse greip ('hand [with spread thumbs], handle').

In Skáldskaparmál (The Language of Poetry), Thor meets Gjálp as he is trying to wade across the Vimur River; she is causing the river to swell with what appears to be her urine or menstrual fluids as she is standing "astride the river". Thor eventually reaches Geirrödargardar, the abode of the jötunn Geirröðr. He sits on a chair that is lifted up against the roof by Gjálp and Greipa as they are trying to kill him.

The same myth is told in Þórsdrápa by Eilífr Goðrúnarson (late 10th c. AD), which is cited by Snorri Sturluson in Skáldskaparmál, although the gýgjar are not named in the poem.

Gesta Danorum (Deeds of the Danes) relates a similar story as Thorkillus (Thokil) and his companions are visiting the hall of the dead Geruthus (Geirröðr) when they notice the pierced body of an old man and three dead women with their backs broken. Thokil tells them that the god Thor "has driven a burning ingot though the vitals of Geirrœth" and that the "women have been struck by the force of Thor’s thunderbolt and have paid the penalty for attacking his divinity by having their bodies broken".