The Story of the Volsungs

Loki

Role: god · First appears: Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard

In Chapter XIV, Loki killed Otter by throwing a stone at him. When Hreidmar seized Loki, Odin and Hoenir and demanded ransom, Loki went to Ran for her net, captured Andvari, and took his gold and last ring.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Loki killed Otter by throwing a stone at him.(Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard · 📍 Andvari's force)
    • With: Otter
    • “then Loki took a stone and cast it at Otter, so that he gat his death thereby;”
  • Hreidmar seized the gods and demanded the otter skin filled and covered with gold as ransom.(Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard · 📍 Hreidmar's house)
    • With: Hreidmar Odin Hoenir
    • “and in the evening they came to Hreidmar's house, and showed him what they had taken: thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold, and cover it over without with red gold;”
  • Loki captured Andvari and took all his gold and his last ring.(Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard · 📍 Andvari's force)
    • With: Andvari
    • “So Loki beheld the gold of Andvari, and when he had given up the gold, he had but one ring left, and that also Loki took from him;”

Chapter XIV · Regin's tale of his Brothers, and of the Gold called Andvari's Hoard

  • enemies with Otter “then Loki took a stone and cast it at Otter, so that he gat his death thereby”
  • enemies with Andvari “when he had given up the gold, he had but one ring left, and that also Loki took from him; then the dwarf went into a hollow of the rocks, and cried out, that that gold-ring, yea and all the gold withal, should be the bane of every man who should own it thereafter”
  • patron: Ran “he came to Ran, and got her net”
  • with Andvari (interaction) “when he had given up the gold, he had but one ring left, and that also Loki took from him”
  • with Hreidmar (interaction) “thereon he laid hands on them, and doomed them to such ransom, as that they should fill the otter skin with gold”

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