Þökk (also Thökk) (Old Norse /Icelandic "Thanks"^[1]) is ajötunn inNorse mythology, presumed to beLoki in disguise, who refuses to weep for the slainBaldr, thus forcing Baldr to stay inHel.

After Baldr was killed,Hermóðr rode to Hel.Hel, the ruler ofthe realm of the same name, agreed that Baldr should go back to the living if all things in the world wept for him. So theÆsir sent messengers all over the world, and all wept for him, but:

"Then, when the messengers went home, having well wrought their errand, they found, in a certain cave, where a giantess sat: she called herself Thǫkk. They prayed her to weep Baldr out of Hel; she answered:

Thǫkk will weep

waterless tears

For Baldr's bale-fare;

Living or dead,

I loved not the churl's son;

Let Hel hold to that she hath!^[2]

And men deem that she who was there was Loki Laufeyarson, who hath wrought most ill among the Æsir."

—Gylfaginning(49),Brodeur's translation^[3]

• Orchard, Andy (1997).Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend.Cassell.ISBN 0-304-34520-2

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• Loki
• Baldr

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