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Thiassi Abducting Idunn by Boris Vallejo

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#Thiassi One of the Hrimthursar Giants of Norse legends. He is the sibling or father of Skadi depending on different sources and the son of Kari. He is also brother to Bel and Thrym. At one time, in the form of a great gigantic eagle, he flew up to the heavens and tricked to gods Odin, Loki and Honir into eating most of a roasted ox. However, before the ox was finished Loki stabbed the eagle with a spear. The bird then flew up to the sky with Loki in it claws and promised to let Loki down if he would allow Idun the wife of Bragi to be his bride. Idun was the guardian of the apples of immortality. She and her apples were taken by Loki to the Frost Giant. The Aesir gods demanded that Loki must bring her and the apples back otherwise he would face death. Loki then transformed into and eagle and persuaded Thiassi to follow him. The two eagles flew together but Thiassi was caught in a fire trap created by the gods. Thiassi fell to earth and was killed by Thor. Thor took the eyes of the bird and threw them in the sky were they remained as stars.

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In Norse mythology, Idun (Iduna) was the goddess of spring and rebirth. She and her husband, Bragi, the god of music and poetry, lived in Asgard, the home of the gods. Idun took care of the magic apples the gods ate to remain immortal.

One day Loki, the trickster god, was captured by a giant named Thiassi. The giant refused to free Loki until he agreed to bring Idun and the apples to Thiassi's home. Loki gave his word and sped off to Asgard.

He invited Idun to bring her apples and walk into the forest, where he knew of some even more precious apples. Eager to compare her special fruit with that mentioned by Loki, Idun joined the trickster. But as soon as they reached the forest, Thiassi, in the form of an eagle, dove from the sky and seized the goddess and her apples.

Without Idun's apples, the gods in Asgard began to age. They became bent and feeble and demanded that Loki rescue Idun from Thiassi. Loki flew to the giant's home disguised as a falcon. He changed Idun into a nut and hid her in his claws. As he flew back to Asgard, Thiassi became an eagle again and followed him. However, as soon as Loki and Idun were inside Asgard, the gods lit a fire on the walls of Asgard. Thiassi's wings caught fire as he crossed the flames, and he dropped to the ground, where the gods killed him.

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Better Myths does Loki-helps-a-giant-steal-apples-of-immortality!

http://bettermyths.com/motherfucking-norse-myth-avalanche:

so meanwhile  back in Asgard the aesir are starting to get PRETTY SAGGY and they are all hiding in their castle like oh fuck oh shit what are we going to do we’re ugly how are we going to keep killing giants and insulting dwarves when we are ugly they will just laugh at us oh god this is like prom all over again except then someone realizes loki is totally not there and they decide he is probably the cause of all this bullshit i mean really they should have figured this out alot sooner resolving aesir crises is pretty simple guys here let me make a flowchart

DO YOU HAVE A CRISIS? YES DID THE GIANTS DO IT? NO? LOKI DID IT.

GET LOKI TO SOLVE YOUR CRISIS

so that’s what they do they find loki and they are like hey asstrolley did you fuck up again and loki is like haha you got me please don’t kill me and they are like we won’t provided you get the apples back and loki is like fuck fine why am i always held responsible for my actions

(Chart by commenter Mary)

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Illustrations from "The Apples of Youth" in The Illustrated Book of Myths by Neil Philip [1995]

In case you don't know the story: Loki and Odin [and Hoenir] were travelling in the wilderness, were hungry and killed an ox. It wouldn't cook. A laughing eagle told them it wouldn't cook until they gave it its fill. It ate everything and Loki got angry and hit it with a stick, which promptly became stuck to both the eagle and Loki, and the eagle dragged Loki up into the sky. The eagle, who was the giant Thiassi in disguise, wouldn't let Loki go til he swore a binding oath to bring Idun and her apples of youth to him. So Loki lured Idun out of Asgard, and the giant came and took her away. The gods became old and grey without the apples and rounded on their prime suspect Loki, who as usual looked innocent and wounded at their accusations, but they threatened him with a thousand painful deaths unless he fixed things. So he used Freya's falcon cloak to fly to Thiassi's lair, changed Idun into a nut, and flew her back to Asgard. The gods saw Thiassi coming as an eagle in pursuit, prepared a bonfire, and lit it as soon as Loki and Idun had safely landed. The eagle burnt to a crisp, and Odin threw Thiassi's eyes into the sky where they still shine as stars. 

The moral of the story, dear readers, is that Loki is an argr little shit who should have manned up and let the giant kill him (or killed him back, or something) rather than threaten the safety of all of Asgard. THE END.