Þrymr
Norse · numen · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
The Þrymskviða is the funniest poem in the Edda and one of the best preserved, and the registry had no one in it but Thor and Loki. Þrymr's mistake is procedural: he asks for the hammer to be brought in and laid in the bride's lap to sanctify the marriage, which is apparently the correct rite, and hands a weapon to the person he is marrying.
Domains
- kingship
- theft
Relations
- killed by: ThorWith the hammer he had stolen, handed to the disguised god as a wedding rite.Reference treatment of the recovery of the hammer at the wedding feast. (secondary)
Sources
- Þrymr is the king of the jötnar who stole Mjölnir and demanded Freyja in exchange, and was killed with his own stolen hammer when Thor came to the wedding disguised as the bride.: Reference treatment of Þrymr, the theft of Mjölnir and the Þrymskviða. (secondary)