Ben Midboe

Justin Hause

• Thor

• Thor’s Goats

• The Farmer

• Thjalfi (One of the Farmer’s sons)

• Roskva ( Thjalfi brother and youngest son of the

famliy).

• This was one of Thor’s many journeys around

the Nine Worlds.

• Thor needed to rest up so he stop at a little

Norse farming community.

• He spent the night in a little farm hut with a family

of four.

• Since the farmer and his family let Thor stay the

night, Thor had to repay them.

• He had to killed two of his goats and have the

family speared out the meat, bones, and hide.

• The farmer’s son, Thjalfi, cracked one of the

bones to suck out the marrow.

• Thor woke up the next morning and hallowed the

hides with his hammer.

• The goats then came back to life stronger and

healthier then they were before .

• But one of them had a bad leg.

• Thor was angered by this that he took up his

hammer and was ready to kill the family and the

farmers.

• Everyone of them were pleading their lives that

Thor would have mercy, the farmer decide that

he would give Thor two of his children to be his

servants. With this, Thor let the farmers.

• Thor took this offer and the farmers sons were

taken to be severnts of Asgard and Valhalla.

• The of the people in the community got to live

Snorri Sturluson. The Prose Edda. Gylfaginning 44.

http://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-revival-of-thors-

goats/