Hoenir
Norse god who rescued a boy from Skrymsli by hiding him as down in a swan's breast.
Hoenir is a Norse god who appears in the tale of Loki's encounter with the giant Skrymsli. When a boy's life was threatened, Hoenir transformed the child into a fluff of down hidden within a swan's breast. Though Skrymsli seized the swan and bit off its neck, Hoenir "wafted it away from his lips," saving the child from being swallowed (Myths of the Norsemen, Chapter XXII: Loki).
The sole attestation in the current corpus comes from the Myths of the Norsemen, which preserves a narrative of divine rescue. Hoenir "heard them graciously and changed the boy into a fluff of down, which he hid in the breast of a swan swimming in a pond close by" (Myths of the Norsemen, Chapter XXII: Loki). When Skrymsli arrived and guessed what had occurred, he seized the swan and bit off its neck — but Hoenir intervened at the critical moment, blowing the down away from the giant's lips (Myths of the Norsemen, Chapter XXII: Loki). The passage presents Hoenir as both resourceful in his shape-shifting magic and attentive enough to act at the precise instant of danger.