Norse Mythology Trivia
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110 free Norse Mythology trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Norse mythology trivia questions with answers. Norse mythology is stranger and funnier than the movies let on: Thor in a wedding dress, Loki giving birth to a horse, a ship built from toenail clippings, a squirrel that runs up and down the world tree spreading gossip. This quiz covers all of it, from the creation of the world out of Ymir's corpse to the fire of Ragnarök and the green earth that rises afterward. The easy questions are ones anyone who has watched a Marvel film can manage (which weekday is Odin's, what pulls Thor's chariot). The hard ones come straight from the Eddas: which god lost a hand to Fenrir, what Freyr traded for a giantess, what the einherjar eat every night in Valhalla, and which section of Snorri's Prose Edda tells most of these stories. It suits a mythology unit, a pub quiz round, or anyone who wants to know the real versions. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the gods, creatures and texts, which cite the Poetic and Prose Eddas directly, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01What is the name of the immense tree at the center of the Norse cosmos?
Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil is where the gods ride every day to hold court, beside a holy well under one of its roots, and the whole tree shakes when Ragnarök begins.
Q 02Odin stole a mead brewed from the blood of the wise Kvasir that turns whoever drinks it into what?
A poet
A poet: two dwarves killed Kvasir and blended his blood with honey, and the Norse went on calling verse itself 'Kvasir's blood' or 'the dwarves' drink'.
Q 03Which realm do the gods inhabit, and which do humans?
Asgard and Midgard
Asgard and Midgard: Midgard means 'middle enclosure', and the gods fenced it off as a stronghold to shield humans from the hostile giants.
Q 04Which Icelandic scholar wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century?
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson was also a chieftain who twice served as Iceland's lawspeaker, and his dealings with Norway's king turned fatal: he was assassinated on the king's order in 1241.
Q 05Odin hung for nine nights on a windswept tree, pierced by a spear, to win knowledge of what?
The runes
The runes came at a cost: he hung with no bread or drink, a sacrifice of himself to himself, then seized them with a scream and fell back from the tree.
Q 06What is the name of Odin's spear, said never to stop in its thrust?
Gungnir
Gungnir was forged by dwarves, the sons of Ívaldi, and handed to Odin by Loki; when the end comes, Odin rides out against the wolf Fenrir with it in his hand.
Q 07Which power do the Eddas credit to Frigg, Odin's wife?
She can see the future but tells no one
She can see the future but tells no one, and it did not save her son Baldr: she made almost everything on earth swear not to harm him, and he was killed anyway.
Q 08The first human couple, Ask and Embla, were made by three gods from what?
Driftwood
Driftwood, it seems: the Prose Edda says the gods found two trees on the seashore, shaped them into the first man and woman, and gave them breath, wit, speech and sight.
Q 09The world was created from the flesh of which primordial being?
Ymir
Ymir was killed by Odin and his brothers Vili and Vé, who made the sea from his blood, the crags from his bones and the sky from his skull.
Q 10Which two humans hide in a wood and survive Ragnarök to repopulate the earth?
Líf and Lífþrasir
Líf and Lífþrasir live on nothing but morning dew while the world burns around their hiding place, and from the two of them every later generation descends.
Q 11Besides Valhalla and Hel, the dead may be chosen by Freyja to dwell in her field, called what?
Fólkvangr
Fólkvangr takes half of those who die in battle, chosen by Freyja, and only the other half go to Odin, so Valhalla was never the only warrior's afterlife.
Q 12What are the names of Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn, usually translated as?
Thought and Memory
Thought and Memory fly out at daybreak and report back at Odin's ear, yet in one poem he admits he fears each day that they won't return, Muninn most of all.
Q 13Odin gives all the food on his table to which two animals?
His wolves Geri and Freki
Q 21Loki is the father of which three monstrous children by the giantess Angrboða?
Hel, Fenrir and Jörmungandr
Hel, Fenrir and Jörmungandr so alarmed the gods that Odin flung Jörmungandr into the sea, sent Hel down to rule the dead and had Fenrir bound.
Q 22Which eight-legged horse did Loki give birth to after turning into a mare?
Sleipnir
Sleipnir was born after Loki, as a mare, lured away the stallion Svaðilfari so that a giant builder would miss his deadline on the gods' wall and forfeit his pay.
Q 23While Loki lies bound beneath a snake dripping poison, who holds a bowl to catch it?
His wife Sigyn
His wolves Geri and Freki get every dish set before him, because Odin needs no food at all: wine alone is both meat and drink to him.
Q 14Which English weekday is named after Odin?
Wednesday
Wednesday is Woden's day, Woden being the Old English Odin: it translates the Roman 'day of Mercury', the god the Germanic peoples matched with him.
Q 15Who avenges Odin after the wolf Fenrir swallows him at Ragnarök?
His son Víðarr
His son Víðarr plants a shoe on the wolf's lower jaw and tears its mouth apart in the Prose Edda; the shoe is made of every leather scrap ever trimmed from a toe or heel.
Q 16Thor's chariot is pulled by two of which animal?
Goats
Goats: Thor can slaughter and eat the pair for supper, then raise them whole with his hammer the next morning, so long as every bone is laid unbroken on the hides.
Q 17Besides Mjölnir, which two items complete Thor's kit?
A belt of strength and iron gloves
A belt of strength and iron gloves: the belt Megingjörð swells his divine might when he buckles it on, and he cannot wield the hammer without the gloves, Járngreipr.
Q 18Thor's wife Sif is famous for what physical feature?
Golden hair
Golden hair, literally: after Loki cut off Sif's hair for mischief, Thor forced him to have dwarves make her a new head of it from real gold that would grow like any other.
Q 19At Ragnarök, what kills Thor nine steps after he slays Jörmungandr?
The serpent's venom
The serpent's venom, blown over him in the fight, leaves the thunder god only nine paces of victory; his sons survive the battle and inherit his hammer.
Q 20How does Thor get his stolen hammer back from the giant Þrymr?
He is disguised as the bride Freyja
He is disguised as the bride Freyja and nearly gives the game away: Thor eats an ox and eight salmon at the feast, so Loki, as the maid, says the bride fasted eight nights from longing.
His wife Sigyn has to step away to empty the bowl when it fills, and then the poison drips on Loki's face and his writhing shakes the earth: the Norse cause of earthquakes.
Q 24What is the only thing that did not swear an oath to Frigg never to harm Baldr?
Mistletoe
Mistletoe seemed too young to Frigg to ask for an oath, a secret Loki coaxed out of her in disguise before pulling the plant up as the weapon that killed Baldr.
Q 25Which blind god was tricked into killing his brother Baldr?
Höðr
Höðr only threw the fatal shaft because Loki put it in his hand and guided his aim; after Ragnarök he and Baldr come back from Hel together.
Q 26Hel agreed to release Baldr from the dead on which condition?
All things must weep for him
All things must weep for him, Hel said, and nearly all did, even stones and metals, but one giantess called Þökk refused; the gods took her for Loki in disguise.
Q 27Gleipnir, the fetter binding Fenrir, was made from six strange ingredients, including which of these?
The sound of a cat's footfall
The sound of a cat's footfall went in with a woman's beard, a mountain's roots, a bear's sinews, a fish's breath and a bird's spittle: the tale's reason cats walk silently.
Q 28What did the god Týr lose in the jaws of the wolf Fenrir when the gods tricked it?
His right hand
His right hand was the pledge: Fenrir would only try on the ribbon-thin fetter if a god put a hand in his mouth, and when it held, the wolf bit it off at the wrist.
Q 29The wolves Sköll and Hati are destined to devour what?
The sun and the moon
The sun and the moon race across the sky because the wolves are always at their heels: Sköll hunts the sun, Hati the moon, and in the Prose Edda both are caught at Ragnarök.
Q 30Freyja rides a chariot pulled by which animals?
Two cats
Two cats pull her chariot, and she drove them to Baldr's funeral; she also owns a feather cloak, which she lends Loki so he can fly to the land of the giants.