Monsters and Jotuns!
Who is Angerboda?
What is a Valkyrie?
This is the name of the World Tree, which sustains all life in all the realms.
What is Yggdrasil?
Loki transformed himself into this to prevent a giant mason from finishing the walls of Asgard on time.
What is a beautiful lady horse?
He is the all-seeing watchman who guards the Bifrost, the rainbow bridge connecting the nine realms.
Who is Heimdall?
A jotun, pretending to be a mason, helped the Aesir gods rebuild the stone walls of Asgard. He asked for this in exchange.
What is the sun, the moon, and Freya for a wife.
What is the Lidskjalf?
This is the realm ruled by Hela; it's not an inviting or pleasant place to live out your afterlife!
What is Helheim/Hel?
Loki bet his head that these gnomes/dwarves couldn't beat his favorite smith Ivaldi in a blacksmithing battle.
Who are Brokk and Sindri?
She is a fertility goddess; she rides a chariot driven by cats and can fly on falcon wings when she looks for her missing husband.
Who is Freya?
This Vanir goddess tricked the Aesir gods into giving her all of their gold; Odin had her burned as a witch.
Who was Gullveig?
What is Gugnir?
Odin's spear
What is Valhalla?
Loki promised the wolf Fenrir that the Aesir gods would untie him after he tested his strength against their magic ropes; when he didn't keep his promise, Fenrir bit off this god's hand.
Who is Tyr?
He is the god of poetry and song; he stays young by eating golden apples of youth.
Who is Bragi?
This is the name of Hel's hound who guarded the gates of Hel.
What is Garm?
What is Sleipnir?
Odin's 8-legged horse
She rules over the calmer Norse "heaven" because Freya is too busy tending to Odin's guests.
Who is Frigg?
This goddess appeared to a Swedish king as a mortal woman and asked for the amount of land she could plow in one day. Then in one night she got married, had four children, and turned them all into massive bulls who were able to tear off a massive island, the site of modern-day Copenhagen.
Who is Gefjon?
This gentle, beautiful son of Odin made flowers pop up wherever he stepped; he eventually became the chief judge of the Aesir.
Who is Balder?
This is the spirt of knowledge, formed when the gods spit out the juice of magic berries. He was drowned in his own knowledge-juice and poured into three kettles.
Who/what is Kvasir?
What is Skidbladnir?
A magic ship made of thousands of pieces that can travel on land or water, and folds up into a tiny pouch
Odin's soldiers eat mushrooms every morning before going off to battle on this giant grass field, where they chop each other to bits all day.
What is Ida?
Odin convinced this woman to share just a sip of her knowledge-juice with him; he drank all of it and flew away as an eagle.
Who is Gunlod?
These three young goddesses were Frigg's hand-maidens, doing errands and special services for her.
Who are Fulla, Gna, and Lin?