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Loki
The named Norse shape-changing mischief figure bound among the gods. Not trickster as a cross-cultural class, and not coyote as a separate tradition figure.
Norse tradition
Loki appears in Norse tradition.
Lokasenna in the Poetic Edda seats Loki as the flyting guest who names the gods’ faults, and neighboring lays keep him in the Aesir quarrel. A named Norse figure of that verse corpus, not trickster as a cross-cultural class and not Coyote.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Loki appears in Asgard.
Lokasenna in the Poetic Edda stages Loki inside the Aesir hall among the gods he insults. A named presence of Loki in Asgard speech, not a generic mischief dump and not Útgarðr.
from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014
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Loki appears in Útgarðr.
Snorri’s Gylfaginning takes Loki into Útgarðr beside Thor for the eating and racing contests. A named figure appearing in that outer court, not loki→appears_in→asgard as the PE hall seat and not thor as his companion alone.
from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220
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sources
- Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)
The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.
- Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.