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Thor Resurrecting His Goats After a Meal with Thialfi

OriginNorse Mythology

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.