Logi

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Logi (»Lohe, Flamme, Feuer«) also Hâlogi (»Hochflamme«), is a fire giant and a personification of fire in Norse mythology . According to Thor's award , his father was Fornjótr . Logi was the middle of his three sons. Hlér (ruler of the sea) was the elder and Kari (ruler of the wind) was the younger. Logi's wife was Glöd ("glow"). With her he had two daughters EYSA and Eimyria ( "embers"), which of the two exiled Jarlen Besetil and Bisil were kidnapped on a distant island.

In the Gylfaginning , in the myth of the trip to Utgard , the Ase Loki competes against the giant Logi in an eating contest , which Logi wins:

Then Loki, who was furthest back, said: I understand an art that I am ready to show: Nobody should be inside here who should eat his food more quickly than me. Then Utgardloki replied : This is an art, if you understand it, and let's try that now. Then he called out to the benches that someone called Logi was stepping out onto the floor to try his hand at Loki. Then a trough was taken and placed on the floor of the hall and filled with meat: Loki sat at one end and Logi at the other, and everyone ate quickly until they met in the middle of the trough. Then Loki had eaten all the meat from the bones, but Logi had eaten all the meat together with the bones and the trough with it. Everyone now thought that Loki had lost the game ... The first was what Loki tried: he was very hungry and ate heavily; but the one who was called Logi was the wild fire and burned the meat and the trough at the same time.

For Richard Wagner it appears in Der Ring des Nibelungen , and there specifically Das Rheingold , under the name of Loge, the strong but trains from Loki has, although both figures have nothing to do with each other.

literature

  • Yvonne S. Bonnetain: The North Germanic god Loki from a literary perspective (= Göppingen work on German studies No. 733). Kümmerle, Göppingen 2006, ISBN 3-87452-985-1 ; Zugl .: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2005 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Ludwig Uhland : The Myth of Thôr . Verlag der IG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1836, p. 31 f. ( Digitized in the Google book search).