“The third gift – an enormous hammer” by Elmer Boyd Smith, 1902, in Abbie Farwell Brown’s “In the Days of Giants: A Book of Norse Tales”. Thor’s hammer Mjolnir was crafted by the dwarves Sindri and Brokkr, on a bet with Loki, who looks on in this image. Loki shape-shifted into a fly and bit Brokkr as he was working the bellows, which is how Mjolnir came to have its unusually short handle.
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