Þrymskviða

The Þrymskviða ( "Song of Thrymr " ) or Hammersheimt ( " bringing home the hammer ") is a Norse Gods Song of the Poetic Edda in Codex Regius. The theft of Thor Hammer Mjolnir by the giant Thrymr is content in 32 verses in the meter Fornyrðislag portrayed and how Thor, dressed as a bride, his hammer regains. The plot is characterized by a burlesque, fluctuating like style in which the protagonists act Thor, Loki and Thrymr oversubscribed. The fabric of the song belongs to the species of Thor myths within the mythological seals of the Old Norse literature.

Due to the lack of reception of the figure of the giant Thrymr in the body of the other Nordic mythological literature as in the Skaldik and especially by the lack of Snorri Sturluson in ( Prose Edda ), the song is rather dated to the late 12th to the initial outgoing 13th century. Jan de Vries leads alternatively to the possibility that the lack of reception in the sources of Icelandic origin ( Snorri ) may indicate that the song did not originate in Iceland and therefore there late famous nationally. Increasing popularity and reception in the form of ballads and folksongs learned the song in Scandinavia since the 15th century.

As antipode Thor robbed Thrymr its attributive hammer. Thrymr beats Loki prior to exchange Mjolnir when Freyja Thrymr would marry. Thor goes to the glow on the trade: he dresses up as Freyja and contracts with the servant as his costumed Loki to Eisriesenfestung. Thrymr reacts suspiciously, but repeatedly reassured by Loki. So Thrymr is dismayed that the "bride" - the disguised Thor - at the marriage a whole ox and eight salmon squashed and three barrels mead drinking, which behavior Loki explained by the fact that the alleged Freyja taken with excitement eight days without food for have. By ( About ) oratory Loki Thrymr is moved to hand over the hammer of the "bride". Once Thor holds his hammer back in the hands, he immediately kills all Giant present the Thrymrs family. Thrymr is one of the slain.