Þjálfi and Röskva

Thialfi and Röskwa ( Old Norse Þjálfi e Röskva ) are in Norse mythology, the constant companion of the god Thor. They are the children of farmers, who have been given by her father to be the expiation of Thor. The father is possibly identical with the giant Egill.

Thor had in common with the god Loki to travel, which aspired to play a trick on Thor. At night they came to a homestead, where they sought shelter. The farmer had nothing right in the house, what could he set before his guests. So Thor slaughtered unceremoniously his two goats Tanngnjostr and Tanngrisnir and let the wild goat roast. Condition was that both the skin and the bones of the animals had to remain intact. Loki persuaded the boy Thialfi to taste the marrow from a leg bone. The boy followed the advice, broke the bones and sucked the marrow out.

The next morning, sat Thor 's two goats that should pull his car Oekuthor back together and wanted to harness it. He noticed that one of the two limping badly. He was furious and demanded after he had found out the reason for the limp to pass from the farmers, two of his children, and his sister Thialfi Röskwa, as a servant and companion. So it happened and since the children Thors are constant companions.

After these things came Thor and his companions to the giant Utgardloki where Thialfi with Hugi ( a thought Utgardlokis ) ran a race and lost. In Thor's duel with the giant Hrungnir the boy helped the Aesir, by giving the Giants an insidious advice. He also killed on this occasion the artificial Lehmriesen Mökkurkalfi.

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