#utgardloki

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So actually, let's blame Richard Wagner on that one XD

You see, Loki and Logi have very similar names, and so people tend to confuse them. That is the reason why a lot of people think Glut is one of Loki's wives, when actually, she's Logi's.

And yeah. In his Ring of Nibelungen opera cycle, Wagner and his librettists confused them, or maybe mashed them up on purpose because it fit their narrative? Anyways. This had serious consequences on Loki's depiction after that, because more and more writers and people associated him with fire.

In a way, they are not wrong, as Loki is the god of HEARTH, but more the way Hestia is, if you see what I mean. He's the warmth that protects your family and children. He's giving you comfort, while Logi? He destroys everything.

There's a tale where Thor, Loki & Thor's servants (*cough*slavechildren*cough*) Þjálfi and Röskva, end up at Utgard Loki's hall (yes, another Loki, but not OUR Loki XD), and their host propose them some challenges. And Loki is opposed to Logi in an eating contest (because Loki LOVES to eat, Mrs Harris, please remember that).

Anyway, Loki eats A LOT, but not enough, because Logi is LITTERAL fire, so when Loki eats all the food, Logi eats the plates and the table and eveything... Because, you know, FIRE.

Jormungandr after Utgard-Loki disguises him as a cat:

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Fjalarr / Skyrimir - The Holder of Space Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters.  This week it’s  Fajalarr / Fajallar / Falr / Fálr / Falur / Fal / Fjalar of the Jotnar (Jötunn / Jotun / Jotunn / Jetten / Eoten / Giant, as used as alternate name for Skryminr / Skirimir / Skriminir mentioned in the Gylfaginning of the Prose Eddas.

His name as Fjalarr translated to ‘hide’ from the Old Norse Fela’ and ‘pipe’, ‘tube’, ‘board’, ‘plank’ or most specifically ‘spearhead socket’ from the old Norse ‘Falr’, possibly by way of the Proto Germanic ‘Falhuz’ meaning ‘to hide’ or ‘to conceal’. Or to ‘hold’, as it’s the hold at the back of a spearhead that the shaft or handle is fit into. Given as another name for Skryminr / Skirimir / Skriminir ‘The huge’ of ‘taker of space’ or ‘the boastful’ a disguised Utgarde-Loki. So the use of Fjallar, which is used for many Giants may just be a way to say he is one who holds or takes up a lot of space.

While out adventuring in Utgardr in Jotenheimr, the land of the Giants Thor, Loki and Þjálfi and Röskva seek shelter one night from not only the elements but also constant terrible earthquakes. They find tat shelter in a huge house with five wings, but no doors, and odd oval windows at strange intervals. In the morning they find that the house was the glove of a giant, the five rooms the fingers and the windows, the holes in the stitching. The giant is friendly and calls himself Skrimir or Fjallar in this case. He says they can have as much food from his immense sack as they need. Fjallar is so large and strong that Thor cannon open the string on the sack the giant has tied. He tells then that they can sleep in his glove as if it’s a house again.  When Thor tries to harm Skrimir while he sleeps because either he is embarrassed that he cannot open the strings on the bag, or because Skyrimir’s snoring is causing dangerous earthquakes. The giant eventually wakes, but only registered Mjolnir ‘s three increasingly powerful blows as if an acorn has hit his head.

Before he leaves them. He warns Thor and company that the giants in the castle they are on track to encounter are not as forgiving of antics as he is and to be careful. 

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Elli, Of Old Age - V3 Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters.  This week it’s a third and final version of Elli who is likely a Jotnar (Jotun / Jotunn / Jetten / Eoten / Giant) as she serves in Utgard-Loki’s Castle hall, is mentioned in the Gylfaginning.

Elli, translated as ‘old age’, and in Old Norse.  Though to Thor her name before it’s literal translation was revealed as her name likely thought it to be a title, or descriptive of her station as in ‘the elder’.

She is described as incredibly aged, and Utgarda-Loki’s wet-nurse.

In one tale, in Útgarðar / Utgard, the castle hall of the Útgarða-Loki, / Utgard-Loki, sits, along with Thor and Loki, and Pjalfi and Logi. And in the tale each guest faced one challenge with a giant of the hall. Thor challenged the giants in the hall to a wrestling match. Utgard-Loki calls in his nurse Elli who is stricken with age to wrestle Thor. They grappled, and the harder Thor struggled the stronger she stood unmovable. Eventually causing Thor to fall to one knee ending the match on the hosts insistence.

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Elli, Of Old Age - V2 Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters.  This week it’s a second version of Elli who is likely a Jotnar (Jotun / Jotunn / Jetten / Eoten / Giant) as she serves in Utgard-Loki’s Castle hall, is mentioned in the Gylfaginning.

Elli, translated as ‘old age’, and in Old Norse.  Though to Thor her name before it’s literal translation was revealed as her name likely thought it to be a title, or descriptive of her station as in ‘the elder’.

She is described as incredibly aged, and Utgarda-Loki’s wet-nurse.

In one tale, in Útgarðar / Utgard, the castle hall of the Útgarða-Loki, / Utgard-Loki, sits, along with Thor and Loki, and Pjalfi and Logi. And in the tale each guest faced one challenge with a giant of the hall. Thor challenged the giants in the hall to a wrestling match. Utgard-Loki calls in his nurse Elli who is stricken with age to wrestle Thor. They grappled, and the harder Thor struggled the stronger she stood unmovable. Eventually causing Thor to fall to one knee ending the match on the hosts insistence.

Norsery Rhymes from A to Z Elli, Of Old Age Well here we are on another ThorsDay with another 20 min sketch of a Norse (and Germanic, sometimes Celtic) mythological characters.  This week Elli who is likely a Jotnar (Jotun / Jotunn / Jetten / Eoten / Giant) as she serves in Utgard-Loki’s Castle hall, is mentioned in the Gylfaginning.

Elli, translated as ‘old age’, and in Old Norse.  Though to Thor her name before it’s literal translation was revealed as her name likely thought it to be a title, or descriptive of her station as in ‘the elder’.

She is described as incredibly aged, and Utgarda-Loki’s wet-nurse.

In one tale, in Útgarðar / Utgard, the castle hall of the Útgarða-Loki, / Utgard-Loki, sits, along with Thor and Loki, and Pjalfi and Logi. And in the tale each guest faced one challenge with a giant of the hall. Thor challenged the giants in the hall to a wrestling match. Utgard-Loki calls in his nurse Elli who is stricken with age to wrestle Thor. They grappled, and the harder Thor struggled the stronger she stood unmovable. Eventually causing Thor to fall to one knee ending the match on the hosts insistence.

Utgardloki: Last challenge: you just have to lift that beast over there.

Thor: The cat? Sure!

Loki: No, wait, it's not -

Thor: *tries to lift the beast*

Thor: *gets crushed under the beast*