Editing Gjálp and Greip (section)

=== ''Gesta Danorum'' ===
''[[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".{{Sfn|Lindow|2002|p=138}}{{Sfn|Fisher|2015|p=609}}
{{Poem quote|text=They saw also three women, their bodies laden with tumours and, so it seemed, with no strength in their backbones, occupying adjacent couches.|char=|sign=[[Saxo Grammaticus]]|title=''[[Gesta Danorum]]''|source=8:14:15, trans. P. Fisher, 2015.}}