Kvasir was considered the most intelligent human. He was created in a vat from the spit of all gods. His knowledge was so powerful that when evil dwarves killed him and brewed mead with his blood, it was said that anyone who would drink this blood would instantly become a poet or scholar. The blood was then stolen by a giant and buried under a mountain with the giant’s daughter as a guard. Angry Odin, god of all gods went to save Kvasisr’s blood pretending to be in love with the giantess. To secretly carry home the blood he drank all of it little by little each day and left with it in his stomach. He escaped by changing into an eagle to fly off of the mountain. The giantess father saw the eagle leaving the mountain and figuring the mead was stolen turned himself into an eagle to go after Odin. This is just one of the many stories told by Thor as he introduces us to many characters from Norse mythology and the 9 worlds from the Nordic cosmos. If you enjoy mythology you will like reading story after story of all the gods and their adventures and learning that many words from mythology are used in our language today.
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