The Poetic Edda on Thjazi

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• attestation: Thjazi is characterized by ferocity in the verse.

  "19. "Thjazi I felled, | the giant fierce, And I hurled the eyes | of Alvaldi's son To the heavens hot above; Of my deeds the mightiest | marks are these, That all men since can see."

• attestation: The stanza describes death or destruction involving Thjazi.

  "50. "Though on rocks the gods bind me | with bowels torn Forth from my frost-cold son, I was first and last | at the deadly fight There where Thjazi we caught."

Skathi spake:"

• attestation: Thjazi is characterized by age in the verse.

  "50. "Though on rocks the gods bind me | with bowels torn Forth from my frost-cold son, I was first and last | at the deadly fight There where Thjazi we caught."

Skathi spake:"

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• attestation: Thjazi, by a trick, secured possession of the goddess Ithun and her apples and carried her off to Jotunheim.

  "Thjazi: this giant, by a trick, secured possession of the goddess Ithun and her apples (cf. Skirnismol, 19, note), and carried her off into Jotunheim."

• relationship: Thjazi's daughter Skathi was permitted by the gods to marry Njorth as recompense for her father's death.

  "Thjazi's daughter was Skathi, whom the gods permitted to marry Njorth as a recompense for her father's death."

• attestation: Certain stars were called 'Thjazi's Eyes' though it is unknown which stars these were.

  "It is not known which stars were called "Thjazi's Eyes.""