![]() ![]() When Thor woke the next day and set out, one of his resurrected goats was lame, and his wrath was only eased when the family gave him Thialfi and his sister Roskva as his servants. However, the farmer’s son, Thialfi, split one of the goat’s ham-bone for the marrow. When they were cooked and being eaten, Thor instructed the family to put the bones on the goatskins, which Thor had laid next to the fire. For dinner, since the farmer could hardly be expected to satisfy Thor’s great appetite, Thor slaughtered his two goats Tanngnióstr and Tanngrisnir (Tooth Gnasher and Gap-Tooth). When Thor was travelling to visit Utgard-loki, he stayed overnight with a farmer and his family. They can, however, provide him with sustenance, just as Heidrun does for Odin (who does not eat, leaving his food for his pet wolves). Thor has a more mundane use for his two goats they draw his chariot. This mead is what the warriors at Valhalla, and Odin, drink. The first is the goat Heidrun, who eats leaves from the world-tree Yggdrasil, which she converts into the mead that flows from her udders. In myth, apart from Loki’s nanny-goat, there are few goats, although the few that do appear have connections to Odin and Thor. Like the wyvern and manticore, they are probably meaningful, but the meaning is lost to us. The animals on the bractates are stylized, and often composed of bits of different animals, like heraldic ones would be later. The goat stands below a three-headed man.Īnother image on a gold bractate may or may not be a goat the horns could also be the pricked ears of a horse. ![]() The actual horn was stolen and melted down, but drawings of the decoration on the horn exist to go by. The same holds true for the myths: few goats, but no sheep.Ī well-known image is of a goat is from a golden horn from Gallehus in Denmark. There aren’t a lot of goats, either, but there are a few among the rock carvings on the west coast of Sweden and the east central part. ![]() Sheep and goats were both common food animals during the Iron Age, although oddly enough there are no images of sheep from the pre-Christian period. ![]()
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