Thor and Loki - The Lay of Thrym - Norse - Extra Mythology

One morning, Thor's precious hammer disappears. Shockingly, it's not Loki's fault. So the two brothers team up to try and find the hammer. And when they find it in the hands of a frost giant, they're going to need a clever plan to try and rescue it. A plan that might involve a wedding.

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♪ Music: "Extra Mythology Theme" by Big Giant Circles

[nixmaritimus]

You missed the best part! Loki shapeshifted into a woman after Thor was in the dress. Loki could have made himself look like Freya from the beginning, but the idea of getting Thor to dress like a woman was too funny an idea for him to pass up.

[BionicmeLoL]

In the version i learned, when Thor discovered that his hammer was missing, he didn't cry out for Loki first thing because he needed his help, but because his first assumption was that Loki was the one who stole it.

[sbatou]

Thor: Wait a minute, *YOU'RE* the shapeshifter! Why the Hel couldn't *YOU* be Freya?
Loki: Oh, look! Jotunheim!

[verbaldrop]

Loki, sitting and sipping mead as Thor kills everyone: "Oh I so love weddings"

[abcdef]

"A Jotun wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair".

[andrewklang]

Freya has good reason to be pissed off: In every story, either A) someone's trying to force her into marriage, or B) somebody steals something from her. That's her whole life.

[oraclesfragment]

Did he call Loki Thor's brother. Loki isn't Thor's brother he is instead his uncle, being a blood brother of Thor's father Odin the all father, no matter what marvel tells you Loki and Thor aren't siblings, and though love this series and channel. I'm glad they made Thor a ginger, and made him a really buff man but I bet everyone's heard this before.

[Pikazilla]

if the Ice Giant King asked why Freya had a beard
Loki would probably say, '"Freya" ate so many oxen that her face is hairy now'.

[capnandy]

I like how Gaiman put it: whenever there was trouble in Asgard, Thor would always seek out Loki first thing.

Because either Loki would know how to solve it, or he’d caused it in the first place.

[troperhghar]

You just know that during the chariot ride this conversation took place

Thor: hey wait, loki you are a shapeshifter why can't you go as freya?
Loki: ... Oh hey look we're almost there

[maddie]

Loki's sassy poses in this episode killed me, especially 5:23
This is one of my favorite Norse myths (my parents are big classics nerds, so I grew up with tales of Greek and Norse mythology instead of the more typical fairy tales). As others have mentioned, Loki is a shapeshifter, so he easily could have disguised *himself* as Freya instead of Thor, or even cast an illusion over Thor, but instead, he put the burliest, most macho of the gods in a dress and just laughed his ass off as the Frost Giants failed to notice the extremely obvious ruse. Not often you get myths that are pretty much just straight comedies. Well, except for all the murder at the end. This *is* still a Norse myth, after all.

[Klishar]

“Hey Freya, want to see Thor’s hammer?”

“Hell yeah!... ahem. Yes darling.”

“All right, here ya go.”

[Thor kills everyone.]

Loki: I really should attend more weddings.

[GuyWhoWatchesStuff]

Loki: hey FREYA

Thor: yes my humble servant

Loki: tell me, what do you think your children with Thrmy would look like

Thrym: ya, I wonder too

Thor, whispering: Loki, I'm going to slam your eyeballs into 2 knives

[chowyee]

Wait, Loki isn't actually Thor's brother. Are you guys mixing in modern lore like the MCU now?

[thedoruk]

They *actually* made the episode about the saga where th0r put into a wedding dress than *slaughters* entire giant tribe!
Glorious!

[Potato-pnsg]

"Hey you hear what happened in the capitol this morning?"

"No, what?"

"Thrym's new bride killed Thrym AND everyone there!"

"Crazy."

[GallowglassVT]

0:55 Loki and Thor aren't brothers. Loki is Odin's blood brother, not his son.

[blomman]

In the retelling I read: when Thor noticed his hammer had been stolen the first think he asked himself was if Loki was responsible. Then after decicing that not even Loki would steal his hammer, Thor did the secound thing he always did when something eas wrong. He went to Loki and ask for advice.
I think it sums up their relationship pretty well

[arutka]

Ok, I know Thor and Loki aren't brothers. But hear me out: this myth is the origin of "Get Help!" from Thor: Ragnarok

[DutchieAbroad]

I kept hearing OSP's commentary in my head 😂
Frost Giant: Would you like to see Thor's hammer?
Thor/Freya: HELL YEAH! I mean, yes honey!