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Loki is a central character in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods [69] and an important character in a few arcs of Gaiman's comic The Sandman. [70] Loki is also a central figure in the series of fantasy novels by Joanne Harris: Runemarks, Runelight, The Gospel of Loki and The Testament of Loki. [71] In games Asgard's Wrath and Asgard's Wrath 2. [72]
Odin asked his son Vidar to make a space for Loki. Vidar rises and pours a drink for Loki. Before Loki drains his draught, he utters a toast to the gods but pointedly excludes Bragi from it. Bragi offers Loki a horse, a ring and a sword to placate him; Loki, however, is spoiling for a fight, and insults Bragi by questioning his courage.
Loki, standing in the rear of the party, is the first to speak, claiming that he can eat faster than anyone. Loki competes with a being named Logi to consume a trencher full of meat but loses. Útgarða-Loki asks what feat the "young man" can perform, referring to Þjálfi. Þjálfi says that he will attempt to run a race against anyone ...
Andvari, a shapechanging dwarf featuring in the Völsung cycle who is extorted out of his treasure by Loki. [12] Fjalar and Galar, two brothers who murder Kvasir and brew the mead of poetry from his blood. [13] Brokkr and Sindri, brothers who craft Draupnir, Gullinbursti and Mjölnir for the gods. [14]
Loki and Fenrir are freed and, together with Jörmungandr, Hel's legions and the jötnar, fight the gods in a final battle, which destroys most of the world and kill almost every participant. The only gods to survive are Módi and Magni (sons of Thor) and Váli and Vidar (sons of Odin), while Balder and Hod manage to return from the Underworld.
Under Loki's advice, it was agreed that if the work was completed in one winter with the help of his horse Svaðilfari, the builder would be given Freyja, the sun, and the moon. With Svaðilfari's help, the builder made fast progress on the wall, and three days before the deadline of summer, the builder was nearly done.
She is the mate of Loki and the mother of monsters. [1] She is only mentioned once in the Poetic Edda (Völuspá hin skamma) as the mother of Fenrir by Loki. The Prose Edda (Gylfaginning) describes her as "a giantess in Jötunheimar" and as the mother of three monsters: the wolf Fenrir, the Midgard serpent Jörmungandr, and the ruler of the ...
The Gospel of Loki is a comic fantasy novel by UK author Joanne Harris, published in 2014 by Orion Books.Closely following the original Norse myths, it is a first-person account of the god Loki's recruitment into Asgard by Odin, their various adventures, and the escalating sequence of events that culminates in Ragnarok, the gods' last stand and the destruction of the worlds.