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    loved to shoot". Þjazi, anglicized as Thiazi Thjazi Thiassi Tjatse (mainland Scandinavian) Tjasse (Norse) Scholars have debated whether Þjazi can be identified...
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    forced by the jötunn Þjazi to lure Iðunn out of Asgard and into a wood with the promise of apples even fairer than her own. Þjazi, in the form of an eagle...
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    of the deceased Þjazi, and Skaði married the god Njörðr as part of the compensation provided by the gods for killing her father Þjazi. In Heimskringla...
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  • It was the residence of a jötunn, Þjazi, and was inherited by his daughter Skaði, later the wife of Njörðr. Þjazi, the jötunn who originally owned Þrymheimr...
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  • the father of the jötunn Þjazi. In Skáldskaparmál (Language of Poetry), he is named Ölvadi and portrayed as the father of Þjazi, Gangr and Iði. Described...
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    chapter 2. The giant Þjazi carried off Iðunn, chapter 3. Loki secured Iðunn and the slaying of Þjazi. Skáldskaparmál (ON), 2. Þjazi jötunn rænti Iðunni...
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  • Norse mythology. He is portrayed as the son of Alvaldi and the brother of Þjazi and Iði. The Old Norse name Gangr has been translated as 'traveller'. It...
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    giant Þjazi is said to be the son of All-valdi [Harbardsljód 19] or Öl-valdi [Skaldskaparmal 42]. I-valdi may be another form of the name. Þjazi is said...
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  • jötunn in Norse mythology. He is the son of Alvaldi and the brother of Þjazi and Gangr. The Old Norse name Iði has been translated as the 'active one'...
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    daughter of Þjazi and later wife of Njörðr. Goddess associated with skiing and claimed as a mythical ancestor of Haakon Sigurdsson. Þjazi, a jötunn who...
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  • Mögþrasir Móðguðr Rindr Skaði Sinmara Sökkmímir Starkad Surtr Suttungr Þjazi Þökk Þrívaldi Þrúðgelmir Þrymr Útgarða-Loki Vafþrúðnir Víðblindi Vörnir...
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    scenes painted on a shield, the first being Iðunn's abduction by the giant Þjazi. Margaret Clunies Ross suggested that the two episodes might be complementary...
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    the death of Skaði's father Þjazi by the Æsir. As one of the three acts of reparation performed by the Æsir for Þjazi's death, Skaði was allowed by the...
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  • Gylfaginning (22), where it is the name of the residence of the jötnar Þjazi and Skaði, but the three other main manuscripts, along with Grímnismál (11)...
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  • Alvaldi Þjazi Iði Gangr Gymir Aurboða Sister-wife of Njörðr Njörðr Skaði Beli Gerðr Freyr Freyja Óðr Ynglings Hnoss Gersemi...
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    the mother of the mythic Swedish king Fjölnir. Skaði - The daughter of Þjazi, whom the gods had killed. After journeying to Ásgarðr from Þrymheimr, she...
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    by Þjazi the giant, who used Loki to lure Iðunn and her apples out of Ásgarðr. After borrowing Freyja's falcon skin, Loki liberated Iðunn from Þjazi by...
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    stories in the Skáldskaparmál include: How Idunn was captured by the giant Thjazi, with Loki involved in both her kidnapping and her recovery. The origin...
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    to some extent is modelled on a Sámi woman. The name for Skaði's father Þjazi is known in Sámi as Čáhci, "the waterman"; and her son with Odin, Sæmingr...
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    Ægir. Chapter 56 details the abduction of the goddess Iðunn by the jötunn Þjazi in the form of an eagle. Terrified at the prospect of death and torture...
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    Aurvandils-tá ('Auvandill's Toe') on the tale of the stars emerging from Þjazi's eyes while Thor throws them into the sky. The Old Norse Aurvandill is mentioned...
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    "first and foremost" with the other gods at the killing of Skaði's father, Þjazi. Skaði says that, with these events in mind, "baneful advice" will always...
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    Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland. This glacier is named after Þjazi, the powerful storm giant of Norse mythology. Tjasse is a broad glacier...
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  • Iðunn, the Æsir's "old-age cure", who was snatched from them by the jǫtunn Þjazi in eagle form; and Thor's victorious combat against the strongest of the...
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  • (fjaðrhamr, valshamr), which could be borrowed by others to use, and the jötunn Þjazi may have had something similar, referred to as an arnarhamr (eagle-shape...
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    kept the Æsir eternally young - who was snatched from them by the jötunn Þjazi after he had assumed eagle form; and Thor's victorious combat against the...
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    jötunn Gymir, that Gerðr's mother is Aurboða, and that they are related to Þjazi (the nature of the kinship is not specified)—father of the goddess and jötunn...
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    Thjazi and Loki. Beginning of the myth of the abduction of Iðunn, attested in Skáldskaparmál. Manuscript NKS 1867 4to (Iceland, 1760), Copenhagen, Royal...
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  • Alvaldi "The all-powerful one" None attested Consort: Greip Sons: Gangr, Iði, Þjazi Skáldskaparmál Áma Big barrel, harass Nafnaþulur Ámr Dark, auburn Nafnaþulur...
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  • in Nafnaþulur and found only once in the skaldic kenning. In Haustlöng, Þjazi is called "the son of the suitor of Greipa". Greipa may be used there as...
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