Thor dresses up as a bride and Loki as a bridesmaid. Illustration by Carl Larsson. Wikipedia Public Domain

Hammer Time or Thor Dresses up as a Bride to Regain Precious Mjölnir

By Nifty Buckles | Nifty Buckles | 30 Jan 2020


#VolkloreThorsday

Þrymskviða Þrym's Poem  also known as The Lay of Thrym or Thrymskviða

The Norns at times spin some comical situations not just for folks... The giant Thrym snatches Thor's hammer (Mjölnir) means "lightening."

Thrym desires Freya, goddess of love in return for Mjölnir. Freya refuses Thrym's marriage proposal ergo Loki the trickster, disguises Thor as a bride and himself as a maid to take the hammer back during the wedding.

In contemporary times maybe the giant Thrym would prefer to exchange Bitcoin or some decentralized crypto currency with block-chain? Just a thought. :)

 

"Ah, what a lovely maid it is!" (1902) illustration by Elmer Boyd Smith. (Wiki Commons) Public Domain

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Source & Reference:

The Elder or The Poetic Edda SAEMUND'S EDDA

Edited and translated with intro. and notes by Oliver Bray illustrated by W.G. Collingwood 1908

Thrymskvitha also known as The Lay of Thrym  Read it at link below archive.org in Public Domain.

https://archive.org/details/elderorpoeticedd01brayuoft/page/126/mode/2up 

 

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