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The Theft of Thor's Hammer

Thor's hammer is stolen by the jotun Thrym, who demands Freya as his bride in exchange for its return. Loki and Thor devise a plan where Thor disguises himself as Freya to retrieve the hammer. After a feast, Thor reveals his true identity and defeats Thrym, reclaiming his hammer and returning to Asgard.

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The Theft of Thor's Hammer

Thor's hammer is stolen by the jotun Thrym, who demands Freya as his bride in exchange for its return. Loki and Thor devise a plan where Thor disguises himself as Freya to retrieve the hammer. After a feast, Thor reveals his true identity and defeats Thrym, reclaiming his hammer and returning to Asgard.

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The fhnft of fhor's Hammer

HEI\ THOR woke up in the morning, the first thing he did


was reach for his hammer. But one morning the hammer was
gone! Thor jumped to his feet and tore at his hair and tugged at his
beard and bellowed, !'Loki, come here!" When Loki came, Thor whis-
pered close to his ear, "My hammer has been stolen."
Loki turned pale. He knew that Thor's hammer must be found
before the jotuns heard of its }oss and gathered to attack Asgard. o'Ask
Freya to lend me her swift falcon wings and I will fly off and look for the
thief," said Loki. He was in a trustworthy mood just then.
Together they rushed to Freya's hall. She also turned pale when
she heard the terrible news. "I would gladly entrust my falcon wings to x

Loki, even if they were made of gold," she cried. "Only be quick and
find Thor's hammer."
Like an arrow Loki flew off. When he came to Jotunheim, hL saw
the jotun Thrym sitting on a hillock, plaiting the manes of his mares
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with ribbons of gold. He was in a very merry mood, and when he saw
:,i Loki he greeted him politely. "How are the Aesir, how are the elves, and
what might your errand be today?" he said, and made a show of good
manners. Such smooth words from an uncouth jotun.made Loki suspi-
cious, but he returned the greeting just as politely and asked if Thrym by
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any chance might happen to know something about Thor's hammer.


"I stole it while he slept," the jotun said with a leer. "And what is
more, I have hidden it eight miles underground. I will give it back to
him, but only if Freya becomes my bride. I have plenty of gold, herds of
black cows, and all these fine mares. The only thing I want that I do not
have is beautifui Freya."
Swiftly Loki flew back to-Asgard, where Thor and Freya were wait-
ing for him.
"Hurry," he said to Freya, "put on your bridal veil. The jotun
Thrym has Thor's hammer and he won't give it back unless you go to
100 Jotunheim and take him for your husband."
"Never!" cried Freya, huffing and puffing so hard in her rage that
her necklace broke and flew from her bosom. "It{ever shall it be said that
Freya was so lovelorn she took a jotun for a husband!" At the mere

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thought, angry golden teardrops sprang from her eyes.


The other Aesir were now called in and the goddesses too. They al1
agreed that Freya must not marry a jotun, but that Thor must harre his
hammer back. They thought hard, and at last Heimdall spoke up.
"You must go yourself rhor," he saici. "you must wear Freya,s wed-
ding dress and play the blushing bride.,,
Thor protested loudly, but all in vain. The Aesir hid his sturdy
legs beneath a trailing skirt, put a belt with dangiing keys around his
rt'aist, and covered his chest rvith .ieivels and Freya's sparkling necklace.
Then the,v tied his hair up in a topknot and hid his face behind the briclal
veil. He \vas a dazzling bride.
"A bride needs a maid," said Loki. "I rvil1 be his maicr.,'
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so Loki was also dresséd as a girl, Thor,s goats were fetched, and
offthey went in Thbr's cart, rumbling over the clouds.
Thrym heard them coming from afar and cried, .oeuick, cover
benches and floor with fresh straw and prepare my wedding feast. Thor
has sent my bride."
They were seated at the table, and the feast began. Right away the
bride ate all the sweets set aside for the women. Then she d.evoured eight
salmon and finished the meal with a whole roasted steer.
Thrym gaped. "Never did I see such a gluttonous bride,,, he said.
"The poor girl has tasted nothing for eight long days,,, said Loki,
the maid. "She has been pining away for you.,, r '

Hearing this, Thrym wanted to kiss her and lifted her veil. But when
the eyes of his "bride" met his, he staggered halfway back across the ha¡
as if struck by , thunderbolt. "Why do Freya,s eyes glow as red as
embers?" he gasped.
o'That is because
she hasn't slept for eight nights, longing for you,,,
said Loki, the fast-thinking maid
"Hurry!" cried rhrym, all aflame, "proceed with the wedding
ceremonies. Bring up Thor's hammer and put it on Freya,s lap, and let
us make our vows of marriage."
The hammer was placed in the lap of the bride, who now sat
modestly in her seat. Thor's heart laughed within him as his hand closed
on the handle. He rose to his feet and wriggted his eyebrows. The veil
fell down, and with flashing eyes he lifted his hammer and threw it.
Thryn and all his kin came to a rapid end, smashed by the thunderbolt,
and the great hall lay in rubble"
Thor and Loki jumped into the billy-goat cart and drove back to
Asgard. I\ow that Thor held his hammer in his hand, they did not much
mind the women's skirts about their knees. Thunder rumbled and tight-
ning flashed, and all the Aesir drew a sigh of relief.

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