The Norse god Loki is well known for his trickery and deceit in modern culture. He had a quick wit,

Here Odin introduces of Loki, the trickster God, who becomes jealous of Balder’s immunity. While disguised, Loki asks Frigg “ ‘Have all things given their oath not to harm Balder?’ Frigg answers, ‘A shoot of wood grows to the west of Valhalla. It is called Mistletoe, and it seemed too young for me to demand its

During Mythological times Loki, the god of mischief depicts an ancient version of our more modern character The Joker from the DC Universe. Joker reimages our interpretation Loki in many ways, for example both have an aptitude for causing chaos, mayhem, and are a catalyst for change. Negative human emotion caused by early psychological stress have a correlation with late behavior as can be observed clearly in the Norse god Loki and the Joker.

The legend of Thor is a bit different than what is portrayed in Marvel’s movie Thor. Thor was a very important god is from Norse mythology and was a thunder god while his wife was a fertility goddess. Odin, Thor’s father was the chief Viking god and legend says that Odin enjoyed disguising himself as a human and would seduce human women. In the Marvel movies, Odin is depicted as a completely different god and Thor is your average all brawns, quick tempered, hero myth. Norse mythology and Marvel’s rendition of Thor and the Norse gods are completely different and while prior to the course, I never would have known otherwise. I have always thought that I understood mythology prior to this course but it would seem that over the last 6 weeks, my understanding of mythology came from comic books and Marvel movies.

One of the most significant attributes of Loki is his connection to Ragnarök, or the end of the world according the Norse mythology. He triggers Ragnarök by “arranging the death of Baldur,” (Lindow, par. 6). He does this by tricking the blind god Hod into throwing a mistletoe spear at Baldur, killing him (McCoy, par. 9). He then turns against the gods and takes the side of the giant. Some of the major incidents that take place during the battle include: Jormungand, the giant serpent, slaying Thor; Fenrir, the wolf, killing Odin; and Loki and Heimdall mortally wounding each other (McCoy, par. 3 and 8). As punishment, the gods “tie him down to three rocks inside a cave” while “a venomous serpent sits above him, dripping poison onto him” (McCoy, par. 9).

According to the Norse Mythology for Smart People in the article, “THOR,” Thor is the thunder god, who protects Asgard from the giants, “Thor, the brawny thunder god, is the archetype of a loyal and honorable warrior, the ideal toward which the average human warrior aspired. He’s the indefatigable defender of […] Asgard from the encroachments of the giants […].” Thor is described as having similar characteristic of Finn: Loyal and honorable. Thor is also strong and courageous: “His courage and sense of duty are unshakeable, and his physical strength is virtually unmatched,” (THOR).

There is a wicked side to Odin. He can be erratic and at times abuse his power by causing or initiating wars. This has surfaced with many rulers throughout history. If Odin were to be compared to a

loki is from the Norse Mythology. His was the son queen Farbauti and king Laufey. His a god, father of hel, the wolf fenrir and the world serpent. He helps the god but sometimes he acted malicious towards them.

The similarities between Prometheus and Loki are almost a sly innuendo for a common origin in there founding. For example, the way the two are punished by the wrath of the gods. However for Prometheus it is Zeus who decides to punish Prometheus by having his liver pecked out every single day for thousands of years until rescued by Heracles and for Loki his punishment is unanimous all the gods were in Layman’s term “fed up with his shit.” And there punishment was for him to be bound by using his son’s “Nari” or “Narfi” entrailsto bind him to a rock inside a cave with a snake dripping poison on his face, though in the text there is no mention of Prometheus wife helping him. Lok’s wife was helping her husband by catching the poison with the

He is the son of Odin and Jord. Ancient people believed Thor would kill and be killed by Jörmungandr. His wife is called Sif. His daughter was called thurd. Thor also had a stepson called Ull. Thor was said to travel in a chariot which was pulled by the goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr. Thor owned a short handled hammer which caused thunder and lightning claps.

The book Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan was exhilarating. In the beginning of the book it starts off at a run from a magical talking goat being assassinated. Then Magnus, the main character, goes on a quest to try to retrieve Thor’s hammer. In order to retrieve Thor’s hammer Magnus has to make a fake wedding with the king of the earth giants, Thrym, and his friend Alex, who is Loki’s daughter, but Loki wants his other daughter, Samantha, to marry Thrym. So that Thrym will give Alex Thor’s hammer as a wedding gift. Loki has other plans for the wedding though, Loki’s plans have Alex bring him the only sword that can break his bonds. Loki’s plans are to get free, but the giants think it’s to create an alliance for Ragnarok.

In Anansi Boys, Fat Charlie asked a spider to meet his brother, Spider showed up and his (Fat Charlie’s) life started to fall apart. This was shown on page 50 when Fat Charlie asked a spider: “If you see my brother...tell him he ought to come by and say hello”. Later on in the book, Spider showed up and he began to go out with Rosie, Fat Charlie’s future wife, which is shown on page 103 when Fat Charlie said: “You were kissing Rosie”. Spider kissing his brother’s soon to be wife is definitely a heinous crime. In Mythology wherever Loki went, trouble followed because he found out that the only thing that could harm him was a mistletoe. So Loki basically got Balder killed by giving someone a twig from a mistletoe to pierce his heart. It is shown on page 457 when Hamilton stated: “wherever he came trouble followed” and “He got the mistletoe...Holder took the mistletoe and hurled it...and pierced his (Balder’s ) heart”. That shows that Loki was very mischievous and tricked Frigga into helping him kill

If one is familiar with the “Thrymskvitha”, then they know that Loki, the god of mischief, steals Mjolnir, the hammer which belongs to the god of thunder, Thor, and gives it to Thrym, the Jotunn king. The giant king, in turn, wants Freyja, the goddess of love, to give him her hand in marriage. Freyja refuses to do this, and in a twist of fate for the god of thunder, he is convinced by Heimdall to adorn Freyja’s bridal gown and travel to the hall of the Jotunn king to reclaim his stolen hammer. Once the Jotunn king brings out the hammer to

He attempts to oppose the new gods but instead is nearly killed only being saved be his half dead revenant wife, he then must deal with the death of Mr. Wednesday, the closest person to him whom he later finds out is actually his father, making him a demi-god of sorts. Once coming to terms with himself and the situation his father has tasked him with stopping, he must sacrifice himself to come between the new and old gods locked in war and explain to them that America is no place for gods. Sadly the final challenge he deals with is his wives second death which seriously sucks, and confronting another incarnation of the Norse God Odin whom explains the actions of Wednesday and Mr. World (Loki) so that he can realize the meaning of his birth as well as true

His origins and relationship with the gods are difficult to fathom. The gods living in Asgard protected their territory from the giants until their final battle, Ragnarok; being the son of giants would suggest a rivalry between Loki and the gods because of their constant conflict (Willis 195). Moreover, Loki has the ability to change shape and gender to accommodate his needs; he is often found to be the source of trouble in Asgard and sometimes he is also the one to fix it (Willis 195). For instance, when he cut off the hair of Sif, Thor’s wife, he promised Thor that he would get better hair from the land of the dwarves. While on his trip, he betted his head to Sindri and Brokkr, two dwarve brothers, that they could not make better gifts than the gifts made by the sons of Ivaldi; consequently, Loki turned into a fly to bite the dwarve brothers while they worked to mess up their artifacts (McCoy).

Loki is the embodiment of, “Of course it was Loki. It 's always Loki.” Loki is unquestionably the biggest question mark within Norse mythology. He is portrayed as a scheming, mischievous deity who has no real loyalties, his role is shrouded in mystery; what was his purpose in the ancient stories. Loki’s character arises questions about his role; was he a plot device, a foil for the Aesir, or maybe he was meant to be used as a warning to child? Within the pantheon of Norse gods, he was an anomaly; his fellow gods are mostly one dimensional and Loki is anything but. Loki is the antithesis to the culture the Norse gods represented; honor, courage, fidelity, truth, discipline, hospitality, industriousness, self reliance, perseverance. Loki is