Loki

Trickster jötunn-born god among the Æsir, father of monsters and agent of Ragnarök.

Children

• Fenrir
• Hel
• Jörmungandr
• Sleipnir

Domains

• trickery
• mischief strife

Powers

• Transform into any creature or sex
• Devise cunning schemes and deceptions
• Fly wearing Freyja's falcon skin

Epithets

• Loptr old-norse · eddicThe airy one; common by-name of LokiLokasenna prose; Fjölsvinnsmál 26 (Poetic Edda) (primary); Snorri Sturluson, Skáldskaparmál (Prose Edda) (primary)
• Loki Laufeyjarson old-norse · eddicLoki son of Laufey (matronymic by-name)Lokasenna 52; Þrymskviða 18, 20 (Poetic Edda) (primary)
• Hveðrungr old-norse · eddicThe roarer; Loki as father of Fenrir and HelVöluspá 55 (“Hveðrungs mǫgr”); Ynglingatal (primary)
• Býleists bróðir old-norse · eddicBrother of Býleistr; Loki by his kin-nameVöluspá 51; Hyndluljóð 40 (Poetic Edda) (primary)

Relations

• ally: OdinLoki invokes the blood-brotherhood (fóstbrœðralag) he once swore with Odin, who pledged never to drink unless ale was borne to them both.Lokasenna st. 9 (primary)
• enemy: HeimdallHeimdallr and Loki are foretold to slay each other at Ragnarök; long-standing antagonists (cf. the Singasteinn/Brísingamen contest).Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning (Prose Edda), ch. 51; Skáldskaparmál ch. 8 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Prose Edda, Gylfaginning 33; Poetic Edda, Lokasenna (primary)