Loki's wager
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Loki's wager is the insistence that because two or more categories exist as poles on a spectrum with a grey area in the middle, the distinction between the two cannot be defined.
The Snaptun stone has been identified as Loki with his lips stitched shut after the wager
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Loki is a god in Norse mythology. Loki engineers the death of the beloved god Baldr and is bound by the gods and suffers from serpent venom. His wife Sigyn collects the venom in a bowl. However, she m
Loki's wager
…with a grey area in the middle, the distinction between the two cannot be defined. In the Prose Edda (Skáldskaparmál ch. 35), the Norse trickster god Loki made a bet with the dwarf Brokkr in which he wagered his head. Loki lost; when the dwarf came to collect it, Loki stated that he would relinquish his…
Loki and Sigyn (1863) by Mårten Eskil Winge
Loki taunts Bragi (1908) by W. G. Collingwood
A depiction of Lokasenna (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
Loki threatens the Æsir with fire (1895) by Lorenz Frølich