Þrymskviða is maybe the best known lay from the Elder Edda. The lay is about Thrym stealing Thor's hammer. The Poetic Edda or Elder Edda is a term applied to two things. ... In Norse mythology, King Thrym (uproar) of the Jotuns (frost giants) stole Mjollnir, Thors hammer, to extort the gods into giving him Freya as his wife. ... Thors battle against the giants, by Marten Eskil Winge, 1872 Thor, Þór (ON), Þunor (OE), Donar or Donner (German) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder and lightning in Germanic and Norse Mythology, the son of Odin and Jord. ...