Þrymskviða

Do you dispute that there are plenty of Asatruar out there who can spout List at the drop of a rune, who couldn’t tell Þrymskviða from Vafþrúðnismál?

Myth as therapy: the usefulness of Þrymskviða.

The Eyrarland image: Þrymskviða, stanzas 30–31.

Reading Þrymskviða

“Þegi þú, Þórr!”: Gender, Class, and Discourse in Þrymskviða

Now, William, notice the word “gifta”. A marriage was planned but you know what happened. Freyja was still in Ásgarð. Þrymskviða tells another story, much funnier, but there too the marriage was never consumed.

Þrymskviða tells the myth of how the god Þórr had his hammer stolen by the giant Þrymr and how the gods managed to get it back by having Þórr dress up as the giant’s bride, while Völundarkviða narrates the master smith Völundr’s imprisonment by a tyrannous king, Niðuðr, and tells how he took his revenge on the king and his family.