SCAND341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bragi Boddason, Poetic Edda, Hymir

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Scandinavian
• Course: SCAND341
• Professor: Van Duesen

Document Summary

Father of sons modi and magni and a daughter, thrud. Only of a talisman associated with a god. Most important god of late norse paganism. There is a feast taking place, they have nothing to drink but they are all very thirsty. Looking to a cauldron big enough to feed all the gods. Go to tyr"s dad who is a giant to get the cauldron. Hymir doesn"t like that, thor and him go fishing. Mother says must throw it against hymir"s head. Giants are chasing them, thor has killed all of the giants with his hammer. Thor comes in disguise as a young boy. Thor pushes him to row out farther than he wants to. Thor reels in the midgard serpent, but hymir cuts the line because he was scared. He pushes the giant overboard, kills him. Widely known and popular in the viking age. Mentioned by the earliest skald, bragi boddason the old (9th century)