Skrymir
Skrymir (" big speaker") is a giant in Norse mythology and is identical to Utgardloki
In the Gylfaginning , in the myth of the journey to Utgard , the Ase Thor and his companions Loki , Thialfi and Röskwa meet in a large forest on Skrymir. They wander together, but Skrymir fools Thor by tying the bundle of food in such a way that Thor is unable to open it. Angry about this, Thor and Mjöllnir hit the sleeping giant on the head. He wakes up and asks whether a leaf has fallen on his head. After Skrymir fell asleep again, Thor hits his head so hard around midnight that the end of the hammer penetrated deeply. Skrymir wakes up again and asks whether an acorn has fallen on his head. When Thor hits the giant's head for the third time, shortly before dawn, the hammer penetrates up to the shaft. Then Skrymir straightened up and asked if there were any birds on the tree above him. It seemed to him that some sort of garbage fell from the branches on his head. Then Skrymir leaves the group.
After losing bets with Utgardloki, this Thor reveals that he pretended to be Skrymir. Thor could not open the bundle with the food supplies because Skrymir had attached iron straps to it. He held mountains from Thor's hammer blows that were hidden from Thor's view and into which great valleys were then cut. He reveals to him that even the first and weakest of these blows would have been his death. Then he hides himself and his castle from Thor and his vengeance through deception and delusion.
literature
- Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X .
