@wolfwood:
You never told us which story was your favorite though.
You… You kind of mentioned my favorite story lol. I mentioned before that some of my favorite stories were the ones where Loki gave birth to children. But to fill in the gaps, the new horse that Loki gave birth to was called Sleipnir. And it wasn't just cool looking, it has eight freaking legs. So apparently either Loki or the horse, Svadlfari, has recessive arachnid genes. Oh, and the gods didn't all gang up on the Giant. No, they specifically called in Thor to do the deed. In fact, here are the explicit English-translated quotes of this diplomatic bargain:
When the wright saw that the work could not be brought to an end, he fell into giant's fury. Now that the Æsir saw surely that the hill-giant was come thither, they did not regard their oaths reverently, but called on Thor, who came as quickly. And straightway the hammer Mjöllnir was raised aloft; he paid the wright's wage, and not with the sun and the moon. Nay, he even denied him dwelling in Jötunheim, and struck but the one first blow, so that his skull was burst into small crumbs, and sent him down bellow under Niflhel.
And interestingly, the Aesir (Odin's family of gods) actually forced Loki to pull the horse seduction trick. So Loki gets a bad rep of being dishonorable just because he's great with illusions.
But in order to bring in my own full myth to the table, how about the one where Loki had kids with a giantess and gave birth to Hel (who looks half blue and half dead), the Midgard Serpent, and Fenrir? Odin was a complete dick to them as soon as he found out that their mother was a giant. And the only reason they didn't kill Fenrir, the giant wolf, even though he is prophesied to kill Odin in Ragnarok was because of pride.
They must have pretty courteous Thanksgiving reunions.
