Re: Thor's charriot

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "thrsnmrtn" <thrsnmrtn@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> > The goats that drive Thor's charriot were he-goats or she-goats?

Or

> they are rams?
> >
> > Joao SL
>
> Hello again. Here is the answer to your question:
>
> This link looks interesting.
>
> http://www.home.no/norron-mytologi/
>
> Most of it in norwegian, som links in english.
>
>
>
> This is what is written I Norwegian about Tor and the he-goats:
>
>
>
> Tor kjører i en vogn, og når den ruller er det torden, dvs.

Tor-
dønn.

> Vognen blir trukket av to bukker, Tanngnjost (den tanngnissende)

og

> Tanngrisne (åpne mellomrom mellom tennene), og den kam Tor

slakte
og

> spise og igjen få levende når bare alle beina blir samlet i

hudene.

>
> Translated:
>
> Tor drives in a wagon, and when it is rolling there is Thunder

(Tor-

> dønn (old norse)). The wagon is pulled by two he-goats,

Tanngnjost

> (the tooth-rubbing) and Tanngrisne (open space between the teeth),
> the he-goats Tor can slaughter and eat, and again bring alive, as
> long as the bones are collected in the hides.
>
> Morten

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That "grisne" of Tanngrisne, I take it is the English "grin",
German "grinsen", which does involve an open space between the teeth?
A German site translates the two goats' names as "Zaehnegnirtscher"
and "Zaehnefletscher".
Dan