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Myths featuring Tanngnjóstr

Explore myths where Tanngnjóstr appears across cultures, conflicts, sacred places, and recurring themes.

1 myth currently featured for Tanngnjóstr.

Thor Resurrecting His Goats After a Meal with Thialfi

🪓 Norse MythologyRoskilde, DenmarkThor • Loki • Thialfi

While traveling to the land of the giants, Thor stays with a peasant family and shares his magical goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, as a meal. After Thialfi breaks a bone to eat the marrow against Thor's warning, the god resurrects the goats only to find one is lame. To pay for the damage, Thialfi and his sister Roskva are taken into Thor's service as his lifelong bondservants.