Seven
tellers – it would have been eight, but one had to cry off at the
last minute – told the story – or stories
of Loki, the Mischief-Maker [and sometimes a Maker of Worse Than
Mischief].
Paul
started us off, and put everything in context, with bright and shiny
new Asgard needing protection from the Giants of Ice and Snow and
Frost... and when an itinerant mason, with a talented horse, offers
to build a wall... though the price is
a bit steep...
After
that, Mike stepped in for absent Alan, and told, out of strict order
[we'll change it next time] Thor's Journey to Utgard – with Loki...
Then
Raphael told us how Idun was kidnapped [the Giants were after her
apples]. Loki was, I'm afraid, to blame – but he also sorted it
out... and even made Skadi laugh [we'll not go into how, not on a
family page] after her father had been killed, and she'd married the
wrong man...
After
that Mike conducted the Assembled Storytellers in a corporate account
of The Loss of Sif's Hair [Loki? Yep!] and The Competition of the
Dwarves at Smithing [from which Mjöllnir, Thor's Hammer, emerges,
despite Loki's insectile intervention – and we also find out how
Loki got his crooked smile...]
Mishca
told us all about Loki's Children [a nasty lot!]
Jason
gave us a hilarious account of Thor's Drag Act [Loki's fault? Well...
probably. It was certainly Loki's idea...]
which he had to do to get his hammer back. A God doesn't feel like a
God without his Hammer.
Darren's
dark version of The Death of Baldr was all the more powerful for
coming after Jason's hilarity.
Maddie
did full justice to the verbal violence which Loki unleashed on “his
friends, the Gods” in his Flyting – the kind of party you don't
want to be invited to!
Then
Mike wrapped up Loki's career – how he hid in a waterfall and was
trapped by his own invention, the net, and then secured and punished
until the end of the world.
After
which, as Paul reminded us, there was [for Baldr, at least, as Odin
muttered into his dead ear] the chance of Rebirth...
It was a great night, Thrilling. I loved all the preparation and having a strong story to get my teeth into.
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