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Þjálfi (
Old Norse) or
Þjelvar (Old
Gutnish) is a farmer's son in
Norse mythology who appears twice in
Snorri's
Edda and once in the
Gutasaga. His name means Delve or Till.
Edda
Snorri relates in
Gylfaginning that when
Thor and
Loki visited the boy Þjálfi's family on their way to
Jötunheimr, Þjálfi cut open the bone of one of Thor's butchered goats in order to get at the marrow. When Thor resurrected the goat, it couldn't walk properly. To atone for this, Þjálfi and his sister
Röskva (Reap) had to serve Thor as his
thralls, accompanying him and Loki on their journey to the land of the
giants where the boy competed in a footrace against
Útgarða-Loki's thought,
Hugi.
In Snorri's
Skáldskaparmál, Þjálfi helped Thor in his battle against the giant
Hrungnir by tricking him into standing on his own
shield, telling him an attack would come from below and thus making him vulnerable to
Thor's hammer. Þjálfi meanwhile easily defeated a secondary monster named
Mökkurkálfi, a giant made of clay but with the "heart of a mare".
In
Thórsdrápa, Þjálfi is Thor's companion on his journey to the home of the giant
Geirröd, although in Snorri's version of the tale Þjálfi is replaced with Loki.
Gutasaga
In the
Gutasaga,
Þjelvar is an adult and arrives at a magical island which sunk every night and resurfaced every day. He lit a fire on the island and from then on it sank no more. Þjelvar's son Hafþi married the girl Huítastjerna (White Star) and they became the ancestors of the
Gutar (the
Gotlanders).
Tjelvar's Grave Image
is a
stone ship, which according to legend is the grave of Þjelvar, and it's dated to ca
750 BC.
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