Who did Thrym marry?
When Loki tells Thrym that Thor’s hammer is missing, the giant admits to hiding it eight miles below the earth. In exchange for returning the hammer, Thrym explains, he wants Freyja, the most beautiful goddess in Asgard (the land of the Aesir gods), for his wife.
In which of these poems is Thor forced to dress up as Freyja bride to get his hammer back?
The story of how Thor gets his hammer back comes to us from the poem “Thrymskvitha” in a medieval manuscript collection of Norse mythology called the Poetic Edda.
What giant did Thor marry?
Thor is the son of Odin and Fjorgynn, or Jord, and is married to Sif. He is a big eater and enjoys the honey-based drink mead. As the champion of order in the world, he battles against giants and other monsters. It might be because of his power and strength that he appears in so many stories.
What is the meaning of Edda?
(ĕd′ə) 1. A collection of Old Norse poems, called the Elder or Poetic Edda, assembled in the early 1200s. 2. A manual of Icelandic poetry, called the Younger or Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241).
Which Poetic Edda is the best?
Prose Edda
Faulkes’ translation of the Prose Edda is indeed the best and most reliable, aside from being complete.
Why did Thor dress up as a woman?
Loki flew back to Asgard and told this news to his fellow gods, who were alarmed and furious – especially Freya. As they sat in counsel, Heimdall put forth the following solution: that Thor go to Jotunheim disguised as Freya, and thereby win back his hammer and take vengeance on its thieves.
Is the Thrymskvitha in the Prose Edda?
Snorri does not quote from it, nor, rather oddly, does the story occur in the Prose Edda. Artistically the Thrymskvithais one of the best, as it is, next to the Voluspo, the most famous, of the entire collection. It has, indeed, been called “the finest ballad in the world,” and not without some reason.
Who is the author of the poem Thrymskviða?
(1902) by Elmer Boyd Smith. Thor dresses up as a bride and Loki as a bridesmaid. Illustration by Carl Larsson. Þrymskviða (Þrym’s Poem; the name can be anglicised as Thrymskviða, Thrymskvitha, Thrymskvidha or Thrymskvida) is one of the best known poems from the Poetic Edda.
Is the Thrymskvitha poem a prose poem?
The Thrymskvithahas been preserved in excellent condition, without any serious gaps or interpolations. In striking contrast to many of the poems, it contains no prose narrative links, the story being told in narrative verse–a rare phenomenon in the poems of the Edda.
Is the Thrymskvitha and the Lokasenna the same poem?
There is also some resemblance between the Thrymskvithaand the Lokasenna(note, in this connection, Bugge’s suggestion that the Skirnismoland the Lokasennamay have been by the same man), and it is not impossible that all four poems have a single authorship.