![]() ![]() There was a school of thought that maintained that what Odd had presented the Giant with was a realistic carving of Thor’s hammer, and that the Giant had been unable to tell the real from the false, and had fled, in terror. Some of the Gods claimed that it was a wooden key, and some said it was a wooden heart. When, in the years that followed, the Gods told this tale, late at night, in the great hall, the always hesitated at this point, because in a moment Odd will reach into his jerkin, and pull out something carved of wood, and none of them was certain what it was. And if I take Thor’s hammer he’ll just come after it, and one day he’ll get it, and then he’ll kill me.’ ‘But if I take Freya back to Jotunheim, she’ll just shout at me and make everything worse. ‘I turned it into this boulder I sit on.’ It’s only a matter of time until he gets here.’ ‘You banished Thor to Midgard,’ said Odd, ‘yet he’s back now. ![]() ‘I am trying,’ said Odd, ‘to allow you to go home with your honour intact and a whole skin. ‘Anyway, birds, they just head for the nearest tree.’ ‘I’d never fall for that one’, said the Giant. ![]() In one of them, they had a stone-throwing contest, but the boy had a bird, not a stone, and it went up into the air and it just kept going.’ ‘My mother used to tell me stories about boys who tricked Giants. 24th August 2017 jazzfeathers fantasy, folktales, Thursday Quotables 6 Comments ![]()
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