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He would defend every popular error that she attacked, and with an acumen and ease that baffled her, even when she knew he was not in earnest, and made her feel like Thor, when the giant affected to take three blows with Miolner for three flaps of a rat's tail. The magazine contained a series of notes on the nursery rhymes, where the "Song of Sixpence" was proved to be a solar myth.
Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress, Reign I forever! "Here amid icebergs Rule I the nations; This is my hammer, Miolner the mighty; Giants and sorcerers Cannot withstand it! "These are the gauntlets Wherewith I wield it, And hurl it afar off; This is my girdle; Whenever I brace it Strength is redoubled!
Thor stayed there that night, and in the morning he got up before dawn, dressed, took the hammer, Miolner, and lifted it to consecrate the goats’ skins. Thereupon the goats stood up; but one of them was lame in the hind leg.
In the legend of the Culloo the frost giantess can only be killed by a crooked horn thrust into her ear. The horn darts out at once into incredible, irregular length, and evidently means lightning. In the Edda the he-goat is, on account of his horns, the symbol of lightning and storm. Dict Scan. "Miolner, the hammer of Thor, with which he kills frost giants, is the lightning."
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