Þórr's Fishing Trip (11)
Þórr's Fishing Trip
This myth relates the story of Þórr's almost successful attempt to catch Miðgarðsormr on a fishing line. The giant Hymir does not cut Þórr's fishing line in the poem Hymiskiða. Hymir only cuts the line in Snorri's Edda.
This myth relates the story of Þórr's almost successful attempt to catch Miðgarðsormr on a fishing line. The giant Hymir does not cut Þórr's fishing line in the poem Hymiskiða. Hymir only cuts the line in Snorri's Edda.
Þórr's Fishing Trip is referenced in:
Digital image of the illustration on page 89 Mary H.
Foster and Mabel
H.
Cummings's childrens book Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse
Mythology.
Digital image of the illustration on page 25 of Ernest Edwin
Speight's childrens book Children of Odin .
Digital image of the illustration on page 112 of the 1908 edition of
Olive
Bray's dual language edition The Elder or Poetic Edda: Commonly Known As
Sæmund's Edda.
Digital image of the illustration on page 113 of the 1908 edition of
Olive
Bray's dual language edition The Elder or Poetic Edda: Commonly Known As
Sæmund's Edda.
Digital image of Arthur
Rackham's illustration on page 135 of the
1907 edition of The Land of
Enchantment.