Characters in Thor and the Jotun Geirrod

Thor lives up to his reputation in the myth of Thor and the Jotun Geirrod. If you want to know what his reputation is, check out Shmoop's files on him. To summarize:He's a fighter, not a thinker. L...

Even though this story is mostly about Thor, it's Loki that gets it all rolling when his bird disguise fails, landing him squarely in Geirrod's clutches. What was Loki doing dressed up as a bird, a...

We (and a lot of the Asgard gods) tend to think of giants as stupid, but they actually come in all shapes and (brain) sizes. Geirrod's brain is one of the bigger ones. He's not at all fooled by Lok...

Every quest needs the wise old mentor who guides the hero on his way. In this story, that role is played by Grid. Grid's a giantess, which tells us that not all giants are cut from the same cloth....

Geirrod's daughters are a bit, um, weird, to say the least. The first one Thor meets, Grápr, decides to straddle the River Vímur and pee. And since she's a giantess, her urine flow is no small th...