Īfter having killed Hymir and his many-headed army, Thor's goats collapse, 'half-dead', due to lameness.

Later in the same poem Thor is referred to as 'lord of goats'. In the Poetic Edda poem Hymiskviða, Thor secures the goats, described as having 'splendid horns', with a human named Egil in the realm of Midgard before Thor and the god Tyr continue to the jötunn Hymir's hall. Thor's goats are mentioned in two poems in the Poetic Edda, though they are not referred to by name. Thor notices that one of his goats has a lame leg in an illustration (1895) by Lorenz Frølich Scholars have linked the ever-replenishing goats to the nightly-consumed beast Sæhrímnir in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folk beliefs involving herring bones and witchcraft. As a result, Thor maintains Þjálfi and his sister Röskva as his servants. According to the same source, Thor once stayed a night at the home of peasant farmers and shared with them his goat meal, yet one of their children, Þjálfi, broke one of the bones to suck out the marrow, resulting in the lameness of one of the goats upon resurrection. The Prose Edda relates that when Thor cooks the goats, their flesh provides sustenance for the god, and, after Thor resurrects them with his hammer, Mjölnir, they are brought back to life the next day. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Tanngrisnir ( Old Norse:, literal meaning 'teeth thin', or 'one that has gaps between the teeth') and Tanngnjóstr (, 'teeth grinder' or 'one that grinds teeth') are the goats who pull the chariot of the god Thor in Norse mythology.

The goats Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr pull the chariot of the god Thor in an illustration from 1832.

Thor mythology