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[armthearmour]

A Winged Spear fitted to a modern shaft, Central European, ca. 9th century, from Czerny's International Auction House.

[snailfrog]

The Wanderer is Loki

During the interim season, I went musing the Wanderer would turn out to be Loki.

I admit he has some divine characters. Down to Loki’s sick jokes.

- Are you a God?

- I wish. For who would not wish such a thing?

Aside the joke, the myths afficionados cannot miss that the Wanderer if he is Loki is saying the truth. Loki is not a God, not an Aesir but a Giant, a Jotunn.

Finally and most beautifully woven, the death of Siggy along the two mysterious earlier deaths of the Kattegat boys and the supernatural vision she has of her dead daughter culminating with the sudden presence of the Wanderer puts the final rest to the answer as who is the Wanderer.

Indeed a God, a divine creature walked through the streets of Kattegat.

Loki had two sons from his (mortal or Aesir, the debate is ongoing) wife. If his first spouse was Angrboda the witch; he had settled with Siggy namesake:Sigyn. Sigyn, the victorious. Sigyn the faithful. They had two sons who died. How they died is not relevant here. Suffice to say the boys died and their deaths broke their parents’ hearts.

Which is why the two boys earlier found mysteriously dead are important: two dead boys. Like Siggy’s own boys most cruelly slain. And the presence of the Wanderer is like a message; like a suggestion to a confused memory...

Then comes Thyri: dead yet waiting for her mother to join her in the after world. grabbing her hand as a call to join in. Notice the Wanderer does not hold her hand but smiles and approves of her decision to let go of this world. Reaching out to the world after Life. The world of Death. Thyri is welcoming like Hel who rules over the Dead certainly welcomed her siblings. Isn’t Hel also a daughter born of Loki’s loins? A daughter whose face is half beautiful and half dead, half monstrous as ... Porunn now?

The Gods are thirsty. And they only trade. A life for a life. Ragnar has two sons. Earl Haraldson had two sons and two more boys died.Siggy gives her life; the Gods do smile on brave women. Siggy whose life is duty has served well Ragnar. She earns a happy afterlife.

The Wanderer did smile on her, whoever he was Odin or Loki.