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Loki

noun

(Norse mythology) trickster; god of discord and mischief; contrived death of Balder and was overcome by Thor.

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"Loki" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost wonder whether Humour does not enter into the Divine purpose and have its place in the Destiny of Man. For my own part, I shall always believe that the Heathen Mythology shows a superiority to any other, in one conception—that of Loki, who into the tremendous upturnings of the Universe always inspires a grim grotesqueness; a laughter either diabolic ...

— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland

... in regions haunted Of twilight, where the world is glacier planted, And pale as Loki in his cavern when The serpent's slaver burns him to the bones, I saw the phantasms of gigantic men, The prototypes of vastness, quarrying stones; Great blocks of winter, glittering with the morn's And evening's colors,—wild ...

— Myth and Romance - Being a Book of Verses • Madison Cawein

... earl turned to me, "By Loki, fellow countryman, there is somewhat wrong here. What does he mean by feigning to think the whole affair a jest? It won't be much of a jest if Griffin and I slay one another tomorrow, as we mean to do, because of what was not done, and ...

— Havelok The Dane - A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln • Charles Whistler

... heiward wearien hwen he punt hire [&] [gh]elden ah e hearmes. ladlich ing is hit wat crist hwen me make i tune man of ancre ahte. Nu enne [gh]ef eani mot nedlunge habben hit loki [/] hit namon ne eili ne ne hearmi ne [/] hire oht ne beo nawiht ron ifestnet. ancre ne ah to habben na ing [/] utward ...

— Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 - Part I: Texts • Various

... a certain myth of Loki in horse-form comes into memory, and makes me wonder how Mannhardt would have dealt ...

— Modern Mythology • Andrew Lang

... in here"—he touched his head—"I said, 'It is Loki come out of Helvede. But he cannot take my Helma, for Christ lives and Loki has no power to hurt my Helma or my Freda! Christ lives! Christ lives!' I said. But the sparkling devil did not let my Helma ...

— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt

Words linked to "Loki" : Norse deity, Norse mythology