QUESTIONING LOKI, Part One [View all]
ASK A NORSE MYTHOLOGIST #2
Last year, I began a new feature at The Norse Mythology Blog called "Ask a Norse Mythologist." Everyone is welcome to submit questions about Norse mythology and Norse religion through the online form. I've received messages asking about Loki from all over the USA, Canada, Turkey and the United Kingdom. I’m very glad that people of such different ages and backgrounds are curious to learn more about the Norse myths. I hope that my Loki answers will be helpful to others, or at least lead them to do further reading and research on their own.
Richard Windsor (Beloit, Wisconsin, USA) asks:
“Is Loki the god of mischief or the god of fire?”
Neither, really. Loki is not referred to by either of these titles in the source texts of Norse mythology. Rudolf Simek calls him “a god without a function,” and all the major scholars of Norse mythology and religion agree that Loki was never actually worshiped in ancient times.
http://www.norsemyth.org/2013/01/questioning-loki-part-one.html
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