Víðblindi orViðblindi ("Very blind") is ajötunn inNorse mythology.

TheskaldHallar-Steinn uses thekenning "Viðblindi's boar" (Viðblinda gǫltr) for whale in a stanza quoted bySnorri Sturluson in hisSkáldskaparmál. Snorri explains it as follows:

Here the whale is called Boar of Viðblindi; this Viðblindi was a giant who drew whales out of the sea like fishes.

—Skáldskaparmál(XLVI),Brodeur's translation

A similar kenning for whale, "Víðblindi's pig" (Old Norse:Víðblinda svín), can be found in an anonymous stanza from the 13th century preserved inLaufás-Edda.^[1]

Víðblindi is also listed among thejötnar in theþulur.

Rudolf Simek noted that the onlyjötunn known for fishing whales isHymir,^[2] but he is never called Víðblindi / Viðblindi.^[3]

• Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist (trans.). 1916.Snorri Sturluson: The Prose Edda. New York:The American-Scandinavian Foundation.
• Simek, Rudolf. 1996.Dictionary of Northern Mythology. Translated by Angela Hall. First published: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1984. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.ISBN 0-85991-513-1.

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