Öku-Thor

Thor as Öku-Þórr with his companions on the way to Utgardloki .

Öku-Thor , in the old Norse language Öku-Þórr (Fahr-Thor, in the figurative sense Wagen-Thor) is an epithet of the Germanic thunder god Thor from the Nordic mythology . The name is displayed only when Snorri Sturluson in the prose Edda ( Gylfaginning Chapter 21, 44, 46) and is a derivative of etymological altnordisch aka "driving a car". The special name refers to the characteristic and attributive way of moving Thor by means of a cart pulled by trestles.

"Þórr á hafra tvá, er svá heita: Tanngnjóstr ok Tanngrisnir, ok reið þá, er hann ekr, en hafrarnir draga reiðna. Því er hann kallaðr Öku-Þórr. "

“Thor has two goats, Tanngnjost (tooth grinder) and Tanngrisnir (tooth grinner), and the cart on which he drives and which the goats pull; hence his name is Wagen-Thor. "

- Gylfaginning, chapter 21

"..At Öku-Þórr fór með hafra sína ok reið ok með honum sá áss, he Loki er heitir."

"..That the wagon-Thor drove with his team of goats, and with him the Ase, whose name is Loki."

- Gylfaginning, chapter 44

See also

• Tanngnjostr and Tanngrisnir

Web links

• Karl Simrock: The Edda - The song of Alwis in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Karl Simrock: The Edda - Alwismal in the Gutenberg-DE project

literature

• Gustav Neckel : The Younger Edda - With the so-called first (1st) grammatical treatise. In: Thule Collection - Old Norse Poetry and Prose , Felix Niedner (Ed.), Vol. 20. (reprint of the last edition, afterword by Siegfried Gutenbrunner ). Eugen Diedrichs, Cologne 1966.
• Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .