Utgard-Loki

[oot-gahrd-loh-kee]

noun

Scandinavian Mythology.

1. a Jotun appearing in the story of Thor's voyage to Utgard: at first disguised under another name Skrymir.

Utgard-Loki

noun

1. Norse myth the giant king of Utgard

Example Sentences

When they came to the palace and found its door open, they went in, and there sat all the giants with their king, Utgard-Loki, at their head.

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Utgard-Loki, the giant king, went with them to the city gate, and when he was about to leave them, said, “Do you find it as easy as you expected to overthrow the giants?”

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Besides the hideous giant Utgard-Loki, the personification of mischief and evil, whom Thor and his companions visited in Jötun-heim, the ancient Northern nations had another type of sin, whom they called Loki also, and whom we have already seen under many different aspects.

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A last attempt on his part to wrestle with Utgard-loki’s old nurse Elli, the only opponent deemed worthy of such a puny fellow, ended just as disastrously, and the gods, acknowledging they were beaten, were hospitably entertained.

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Early on the morrow, Skrymir left Thor and his companions, pointing out the shortest road to Utgard-loki’s castle, which was built of great ice blocks, with huge glittering icicles as pillars.

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