Thrud

Thor and his daughter next to the petrified dwarf - illustration by WG Collingwood (1854–1932), first published in 1908

Thrud ( old north. Þrúðr "force") is the daughter of Sif and Thor, the god of thunder , in Norse mythology . Little is known of her.

Since the sources do not mention any other daughter of Thor besides Thrud, it is sometimes assumed that the Alvíssmál is Thrud. In the incident in the Alvíssmál, however, Thor's daughter is not mentioned by name. In this respect, despite the high probability, it is not entirely certain that the Alvissmál story is also about Thrud.

In the Alvíssmál, the dwarf Alvíss ("omniscient") asks for the hand of Thor's daughter (Thrud?). Thor, who is against marriage, asks the dwarf all night how individual natural objects are called by the various beings - Assir , alps, dwarfs , giants , humans, etc. When the first ray of the sun hits Alvíss, it is turned into stone. The incident can only be found in the Alvíssmál, a very young Eddic poem that primarily conveys various poetic expressions. Research suggests that the legend is an invention of the Alvíssmál poet himself.

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 .
Arnulf Krause : Reclam's Lexicon of Germanic Mythology and Heroic Legend, Stuttgart 2010.

Web links

Commons : Thrud - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ For example by Wolfgang Golther : Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie, Kettwig 1987, 3rd edition (reprint of the revised edition from 1908), p. 282.
↑ Rudolf Simek and Arnulf Krause (see references) make no reference to Thrud.

[1] For example by Wolfgang Golther : Handbuch der Germanischen Mythologie, Kettwig 1987, 3rd edition (reprint of the revised edition from 1908), p. 282.

[2] Rudolf Simek and Arnulf Krause (see references) make no reference to Thrud.