Thor's Wedding Day by Bruce Coville

Author:Bruce Coville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The hour that followed was the most frightening of my life, as Loki and my parents worked to soothe Thor’s anger. In the end, they negotiated this bargain: In return for my error, Roskva and I were to be sent to work for the gods.

Which explains both how I became Thor’s goat boy and why Grinder had never been very well-disposed toward me. (Though I have to say that by this time, his limp had nearly healed.)

If you were paying close attention to my story, you may have noticed what I thought the problem was now. Hoping I was right, and without raising my head from the ground, I said to the thunder god, “O mighty Thor, I know it has long been your practice to slaughter the goats at night, and bring them back to life come morning.” (One must speak more formally than usual when addressing a god, especially an angry one.)

Thor grunted, waiting for me to go on.

“Please forgive me if I am wrong, master. But whenever I have seen you do this before, it was through the power of your hammer.”

I dared a quick peek up and saw Thor’s eyes widen as the truth sank in: Hammerless as he now was, he would have no way to revive the goats in the morning!

He dropped the stone he’d been about to slam into Gat’s head and held out his hands, staring at them in horror.

Loki, who was sitting nearby, had his mouth covered. He was trying to look horrified, too, but I am quite certain he was simply covering his laughter. I wondered if he would have stopped Thor had I not arrived, or let him slay the goats. With Loki, it was always hard to tell.

Thor lay his hand upon my head. “You have done well this evening, Thialfi. My thanks to you.”

I was glad to have the thanks of the thunder god. I was even happier when later that evening Tooth-Grinder came to me and said, “That was well done, Thialfi Goat Boy.”

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