Brok

Family: Dwarfs · Role: dwarf · First appears: Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Loke's Wager with the Dwarfs

Life events

Sindre made a golden-bristled boar, the ring Draupner, and a hammer, with Brok working the bellows.(Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Loke's Wager with the Dwarfs)
- With: Sindre
- “All these treasures he then placed in the hands of his brother Brok, and bade him go with Loke to Asgard to fetch the wager.”
The gods judged the hammer the best treasure and declared Brok had fairly won the wager.(Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Loke's Wager with the Dwarfs · 📍 Asgard)
- With: Loki Odin Thor Frey
- “The decision of the gods was, that the hammer was the best of all these treasures and the greatest protection against the frost-giants, and they declared that the dwarf had fairly won the wager.”
Thor seized Loke for Brok after Loke escaped the dwarf.(Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Loke's Wager with the Dwarfs)
- With: Thor
- “Then the dwarf requested Thor to seize him, and he did so.”
Brok sewed Loke’s mouth together and broke off the thread.(Younger Edda · Poetical Diction · Loke's Wager with the Dwarfs)
- With: Loki
- “Now Brok sewed Loke’s mouth together, and broke off the thread at the end of the sewing.”

siblings with Sindre “Thereupon Loke wagered his head with the dwarf, who hight Brok, that his brother Sindre would not be able to make three other treasures equally as good as these were.”
protégé: Odin “He gave to Odin the ring, saying that every ninth night eight other rings as heavy as it would drop from it;”
protégé: Frey “to Frey he gave the boar, stating that it would run through the air and over seas, by night or by day, faster than any horse;”
protégé: Thor “Then he gave to Thor the hammer, and said that he might strike with it as hard as he pleased;”

Extracted from the original text of The Eddas. Made with Rho MD.