Leikn (Old Norse:[ˈlɛikn]) is a femalejötunn inNorse mythology. The 10th-centuryskaldVetrliði Sumarliðason lists her among the jötnar killed by thethunder godThor.

TheOld Norse nameLeikn has been translated as 'trickery'.^[1] Stemming from aProto-Norse form reconstructed as*laikīnō, it is related to the Old Norseleikni ('bewitchment'), and to theOld Englishscīn-lǣce ('sorceress').^[2]

The death of Leikn is mentioned in alausavísa composed byVetrliði Sumarliðason which praises Thor for having killedgiants and giantesses:

Leikn's name was used byskalds inkennings.Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld thus uses thekenning "Leikn's horse" (hestr Leiknar) for a wolf (Óláfsdrápa,6) andHallvarðr háreksblesi calls the raven "hawk of Leikn of points" (haukr Leiknar odda) that is "hawk ofvalkyrie" (Knútsdrápa,6).

Leikn is also listed in theþulur.

• de Vries, Jan (1962).Altnordisches Etymologisches Worterbuch (1977 ed.). Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-05436-3.

• Faulkes, Anthony, trans. (1987).Edda (1995 ed.). Everyman.ISBN 0-460-87616-3.
• Orchard, Andy (1997).Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend. Cassell.ISBN 978-0-304-34520-5.

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