In return, the goddess Freya heals his leg, though she cannot mend it completely, and Odin gives him a staff. He eventually speaks with the Giant, who reveals his brother built the walls of Asgard but was tricked out of payment and killed by Thor. There, Thor leads him to Mimir's Well, and he receives wisdom and a vision of his parents in their youth.

But he realises that the gods had nowhere to go and couldn't feed themselves.ĭeciding to help the stranded gods, Odd travels with them to Asgard.

But wherether they were gods or not, Odd couldn't continue to feed them. The gods have been transformed and cast out of Asgard by a Frost Giant who tricked Loki into giving him Thor's hammer by taking the form of a woman, granting him rule over Asgard and causing the endless winter.

But as time passed by, he learns that these are not normal animals, but the gods Loki, Odin and Thor. The bear accepted and was actually hungry. Odd aids the bear, and tries to feed him. There he meets a fox, an eagle and a bear, the latter with its paw trapped in a tree. Soon after he accidentally crushes his leg and his Scottish mother marries a fat widower who neglects him in favor of his own children, and when soon after the winter drags on unnaturally long, Odd leaves his village for the forest. Odd is a young Norseman whose father, a woodcutter, drowned during a Viking raid. It draws on Norse mythology and also the historical Vikings. Odd and the Frost Giants ( 2008) is a World Book Day book by Neil Gaiman.

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