{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml17_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml17_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml17_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/tml/tml17.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from Donald A. Mackenzie's 1912 popular retelling of Norse mythology, presenting the story of Thor and Loki's journey to Jotunheim and their encounter with the giant Utgard-Loki. The narrative follows Thor as he travels with Loki, Thjalfe, and Roskva through the land of giants, where they are repeatedly humiliated: Loki loses an eating contest, Thjalfe loses a footrace, and Thor fails to lift a great cat or defeat an old woman in wrestling. A key episode features the deceptive giant Skrymer, whose \"glove\" the travelers mistake for a house, and whose skull Thor strikes three times with his hammer Mjolner to no effect. The work draws on the Eddic tradition\u2014specifically the Gylfaginning section of the Prose Edda\u2014and Mackenzie renders it in an elevated, pseudo-archaic prose style aimed at a general audience. A distinctive feature is Mackenzie's framing of Loki as a scheming antagonist (\"the Evil One\") who actively engineers conflict between Thor and his human ally Orvandel, emphasizing Loki's treacherous nature more explicitly than some other retellings. The excerpt ends before the reveal that Skrymer, Utgard-Loki, and all the challenges were magical illusions\u2014suggesting this is mid-chapter and the full argument of the episode (the limits of brute strength against deception) is yet to land.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter XII. The City of Enchantments","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":4090}