Where is there humor in norse mythology. I need at least one or two examples.?

Question

Where is there humor in norse mythology. I need at least one or two examples.?

Answer 1

Thor's mistress is the giantess Jarnsaxa ("iron cutlass")

Skadi chose her husband based on how his feet looked.

Hymir possessed an enormous cauldron which the Aesir coveted to brew beer in.

http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/...

Found by typing the words 'Norse Mythology' on Google, and pressing the search button.

Answer 2

isnt much of norse mythology humorous?

Answer 3

Hey, Loki dressed Thor up as Freyja and married him off to the Giant who stole Mjolnor in Thrym's Lay

http://www.mythicalrealm.com/legends/tho...

Njord is another story, but actually it's his wife the Giantess Skadi whose story is so ironic.  After the gods killed her father, she was offered a choice of husbands and chose Njord.  However, she was a mountain Giantess and he wanted to live by the sea -- so she left him for the mountain God Ullr who is the patron of skiing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska%C3%B0i

While I'm not aware of any specific jokes in that one, the ironies are so thick I've always assumed they were in one version of the stories or other.

Answer 4

in one story Loki cut of Sif's Golden locks of..In some stories her hair is black. but she got so mad she made him put every hair back, the humer, nobody messes with the do not even Gods.