Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman

Freya’s tears, for example, was a poetic way of saying “gold.”

Angrboda, Loki’s wife among the giants, who gives birth to his monstrous children and

He travels from place to place in disguise,

When he walks among us, he does so as a tall man, wearing a cloak and hat.

He has two ravens, whom he calls Huginn and Muninn, which mean “t...

Nothing can be hidden from him.

Thor wears iron gloves,

Loki is the son of Laufey, who was also known as Nal, or needle, because she was slim and beautiful and sharp.

Loki walks in the sky with shoes that fly, and he can transform his shape so he looks like other people, or change into animal form,

Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god. Loki drinks too much,

Loki and his children will be there for Ragnarok, the end of everything, and it will not be on the side of the gods of Asgard that they will fight.

Last of all they gave the two people they had made names: the man they called Ask, or Ash Tree; the woman they called Embla, or Elm.

The ash tree Yggdrasil is a mighty ash tree, the most perfect and beautiful of all trees: also the largest. It grows between the nine worlds and joins them, each to each.

Midgard, which is the world of women and men, the world in which we make our home.

He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.

Loki nursed his resentments.

Loki shifted his shape,

and now he was, in voice and in appearance, a beautiful young serving woman.

two huge goats, whom Thor called Snarler and Grinder.

“That was Elli, old age. No one can beat old age, because in the end she takes each of us, makes us weaker and weaker until she closes our eyes for good.

she was as beautiful as her mother-in-law was alarming;

Vali: There are two gods named Vali. One is a son of Loki and Sigyn, who becomes a wolf and kills his brother, Narfi. The other is a son of Odin and Rind, conceived to avenge Balder’s death.