Röskva

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Röskva is a person from Norse mythology who appears in Snorri's Edda. She is the thrall of the god Thor, she is the sister of Þjálfi who acts as Thor's shieldbearer.

The prose Edda tells that when Thor visited her family, her brother Þjálfi crushed the bone of one of Thor's butchered goats. When Thor resurrected the goat, it could not walk properly. To atone for this, Röskva and her brother had to serve Thor as his thralls.

Röskva also travelled to the Útgarðir, to the hall of the jotun Útgarða-Loki with Thor, Loki and her brother.

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