Meanwhile Loki was having a fine old time frolicking in the fields. Seething with rage, he tried to take Freya by force - until Thor cracked his skull with his hammer. With his horse missing, the Giant didn’t quite make the schedule. By whinnying and prancing off into the woods, Svadilfari was led far away from the stone pile. So he changed himself into a mare and seduced the Giant’s stallion. A talent he’d developed to make him the shiftiest transmogrifier of all time - from flea to fish to fast flying feathers in 0.3 seconds. Now Loki, like fire and smoke, was a shape-changer from the word go. With three days to go, Freya was in distress and the Gods aghast. He had a huge stallion called Svadilfari, which could haul boulders like there was no tomorrow. We’ll let him keep the wheelbarrow or something.”Īlas, the Giant was not on his own. “He’ll never manage it on his own, even if he works night and day - and the deal will be off. As payment, the Giant asked for the Sun and Moon and also the Goddess Freya if the work was completed to schedule. Loki came up with the plan of contracting a Giant to do the job. All the basic construction had been completed but they needed a large protective wall to keep the riff-raff out. Which is not surprising as money and banks hadn’t been invented yet. When the Gods were struggling to build Asgard, they found they’d run out of funds. His first escapade was a very rampant romp. But as time wore on he became increasingly nasty. He was the first anti-hero, quick-witting his way out of the tight corners and confrontations caused by his misdeeds. The son of two giants, Laufey and FARBAUTI, he was so outrageously mischievous that he even sneaked his way into becoming a God. One of the world’s major Trickster Gods, in his early days Loki was a rascal crafty, sneaky, silly and malicious - a Loki The Lad.
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