 High says that Ymir was by no means considered a god, and says that "he was evil and all his descendants".High explains that Ymir is the ancestor of all jötnar (specifically hrimthursar), and that it is said that when Ymir slept, he sweated, and from his left arm and right arm grew a male and a female, and his left leg produced a son with his right leg, and from them came generations.Gangleri asks where Ymir lived and what sustained him.