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Loka Táttur or Lokka Táttur (Faroese "tale—or þáttr—of Loki") is a Faroese ballad dating to the late Middle Ages that features the gods Loki, Odin, and Hœnir helping a farmer and a boy escape the wrath of a bet-winning jötunn. The tale notably features Loki as a benevolent god in this story, although his slyness is in evidence as ...
In Norse mythology, Útgarða-Loki (Anglicized as Utgarda-Loki, Utgard-Loki, and Utgardsloki) is the ruler of the castle Útgarðr in Jötunheimr. He is one of the jötnar and his name means literally "Loki of the Outyards" or "Loki of the Outlands", to distinguish him from Loki, the companion of Thor. He was also known as Skrýmir or Skrymir.
Diana Wynne Jones's novel, Eight Days of Luke (1975) is an allegory of the Norse gods. Loki, Thor, Odin, Frey and Freya are characters in the story. Several other characters from Norse mythology such as Siegfried, Brunhilde, Baldur and Sigyn are mentioned as well (though not all by name).
Þjálfi and Röskva turn away in fear as Thor and Loki face the immense jötunn Skrymir in an illustration (1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith.. In Norse mythology, Þjálfi (Old Norse: [ˈθjɑːlve]) and Röskva (O.N.: Rǫskva), also known as Thjalfi and Roskva, [1] are two siblings, a boy and a girl, respectively, who are servants of the god Thor.
These blade-like horns, evocative of weaponry wielded by the trickster god Loki in Norse mythology, helped inspire its scientific name, which also recognizes the permanent home of the fossils at ...
In Gylfaginning, Thor and his companions Loki and Þjálfi are in the hall of the jötunn Útgarða-Loki where they meet difficult challenges testing their strength and skill. Thor has just been humiliated in a drinking challenge and wants to get even. Then said Thor: 'Little as ye call me, let any one come up now and wrestle with me; now I am ...
The Gospel of Loki is a comic fantasy novel by UK author Joanne Harris, published in 2014 by Orion Books.Closely following the original Norse myths, it is a first-person account of the god Loki's recruitment into Asgard by Odin, their various adventures, and the escalating sequence of events that culminates in Ragnarok, the gods' last stand and the destruction of the worlds.
Þökk in an illustration from the 17th-century Icelandic manuscript AM 738 4to, the so-called Langa Edda or Edda Oblongata.. Þökk (also Thökk) (Old Norse / Icelandic "Thanks" [1]) is a jötunn in Norse mythology, presumed to be Loki in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slain Baldr, thus forcing Baldr to stay in Hel.