Myths Collection

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.

While testing the hospitality of his foster-son King Geirröth, Odin disguises himself as a traveler named Grímnir but is captured and tortured between two roaring fires for eight nights. The king's young son, Agnar, shows mercy by offering the god a drink, prompting Odin to reveal profound secrets of the cosmos and the divine halls before unveiling his true identity. The myth ends with the...