- In
Norse mythology,
Þjálfi (Old Norse: [ˈθjɑːlve]) and Röskva (O.N.: Rǫskva [ˈrɔskwɑ]), also
known as
Thjalfi and Roskva, are two siblings, a boy and...
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Third reluctantly relates a tale in
which Thor, Loki and Thor's servants,
Þjálfi and Röskva are
traveling to the east. They
arrive at a vast
forest in Jötunheimr...
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oceans to Jötunheimr, with
Þjálfi hanging onto his
waist band.
Being a
drapa (drápa) the poem is rich in
praise of Thor and
Þjálfi's valour in
making the difficult...
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farmers and
shared with them his goat meal, yet one of
their children,
Þjálfi,
broke one of the
bones to suck out the marrow,
resulting in the lameness...
- that his foot lay over Thor's neck.
Thjálfi struck at Mökkurkálfi, and he fell with
little glory.
Thereupon Thjálfi went over to Thor and
would have lifted...
- to
throw the
bones of the
goats on to the goatskins. The peasant's son
Þjálfi takes one of the goat ham-bones and uses a
knife to
split it open, breaking...
- them
agree to a duel. Thor
arrives at the
appointment with his
servant Þjálfi, and
Hrungnir is
escorted by Mokkurkálfi ('Mist-calf'), a
mighty creature...
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break the bones. Afterward, at the
suggestion of Loki, the
peasant child Þjálfi sucks the bone
marrow from one of the goat bones, and when Thor goes to...
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offering them
lodgings (v. 11-12). The
farmer has two children,
Þjálfi and Röskva (v. 13).
Þjálfi and Thor go into the hall to talk
while Loki
slaughters the...
- Loki
visit Midgard, the
world of humans, and take on farmer's
children Þjálfi and Röskva as
their servants. At
their return to Valhalla, they find that...
