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Loki discovers that he is Laufey's biological son, adopted by Odin after the war ended. After Odin exiles Thor to Earth, Loki confronts Odin about his parentage, and a weary Odin falls into the deep "Odinsleep" to recover his strength. Loki takes the throne in Odin's stead and offers Laufey the chance to kill Odin and retrieve the Casket.
Loki says that Odin does a poor job in handing out honor in war to men, and that he's often given victory to the faint-hearted. Odin responds that even if this is true, Loki (in a story otherwise unattested) once spent eight winters beneath the earth as a woman milking cows, and during this time bore children. Odin declares this perverse.
Loki Laufeyson is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby, he is based on the Norse mythological deity of the same name.
When his son Loki was born a runt, an ashamed Laufey ordered the baby hidden. [1] After Odin invades Jotunheim and kills Laufey in battle, he discovers Loki and decides to adopt him. [1] [2] It is later revealed that Laufey survived the battle and was killed by a time-traveling future Loki. [3]
Odin is also the adoptive father of Loki, a child of Giant ancestry whose father King Laufey is killed by Odin in battle: [4] adopted in a deal with Bor's spirit, unaware of Bor's intention that the child would bring about Odin's downfall. [5] Despite Odin's intentions, Thor and Loki become bitter enemies. Odin also was the father of Balder ...
In a flashback, Odin sends Thor to capture Loki's children; Jörmungandr is thrown into the sea, Fenrir is chained for eternity in Asgard, and Hel is banished to the underworld. Loki appears before Leif and reveals that the Vanir imprisoned him in the skull of Hoenir , an Aesir god half-murdered by Odin whose broken mind overflows with madness ...
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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.