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60 free Norse Mythology trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 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
The Norns water it daily from the well of Urðr, and the gods hold their assemblies beneath it.
Q 02According to the surviving Norse sources, how many worlds are there?
Nine
The sources never actually give a full list of the nine, so scholars have to reconstruct it from scattered mentions.
Q 03Which realm do the gods inhabit, and which do humans?
Asgard and Midgard
Midgard sits at the center of the cosmos, encircled by the ocean where the world serpent lies.
Q 04Which Icelandic scholar wrote the Prose Edda in the 13th century?
Snorri Sturluson
Snorri was a lawspeaker and politician as well as an author, and was assassinated in his cellar in 1241 on the orders of Norway's king.
Q 05Which god hung himself upside-down on the world tree for nine days and nights to learn the runes?
Odin
He is also missing an eye, which he left in Mímir's well as the price of a drink of wisdom.
Q 06Which god was the most popular among Scandinavians during the Viking Age?
Thor
Around a thousand miniature hammer pendants have been dug up across the Nordic world, worn much as Christians wore crosses.
Q 07Frigg, Odin's wife, has which power that she keeps to herself?
She can see the future but tells no one
Her foreknowledge did not save her son Baldr, whose death she tried to prevent by extracting oaths from every thing in the world.
Q 08The first human couple, Ask and Embla, were made by three gods from what?
Driftwood
Their names are usually read as "ash" and "elm," and each of the three gods gave them a gift: breath, wit and warmth.
Q 09The world was created from the flesh of which primordial being?
Ymir
Odin and his brothers Vili and Vé killed him; his blood became the sea, his bones the hills and his skull the sky.
Q 10Which two humans hide in a wood and survive Ragnarök to repopulate the earth?
Líf and Lífþrasir
The earth rises green from the sea after the fire, and Baldr and Höðr return from Hel to rule alongside Thor's sons.
Q 11Besides Valhalla and Hel, the dead may be chosen by Freyja to dwell in her field, called what?
Fólkvangr
Freyja takes half of those who die in battle, and Odin gets the other half, a detail that surprises people who assume Valhalla was the only destination.
Q 12Odin's ravens Huginn and Muninn fly out over the world each day. What do their names mean?
Thought and Memory
They report back what they have seen and heard, and Odin admits in one poem that he fears Muninn will not return.
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
Odin dealt with them by throwing the serpent into the sea, casting Hel down to rule the dead, and having the wolf bound.
Q 22Which eight-legged horse did Loki give birth to after turning into a mare?
Sleipnir
The stallion Svaðilfari belonged to the giant building Asgard's wall, and Loki distracted it to make the builder miss his deadline.
Q 23While Loki is bound beneath a venom-dripping serpent, who holds a bowl to catch the poison?
His wife Sigyn
Odin himself lives on wine alone, according to the Prose Edda.
Q 14Which English weekday is named after Odin (Woden)?
Wednesday
Tuesday belongs to Týr, Thursday to Thor, and Friday to Frigg.
Q 15Who avenges Odin after the wolf Fenrir swallows him at Ragnarök?
His son Víðarr
Víðarr wears a shoe made of all the leather scraps ever discarded, plants it on the wolf's lower jaw and tears its mouth apart.
Q 16Thor's chariot is pulled by two of which animal?
Goats
He can eat them at night and resurrect them in the morning with his hammer, provided the bones are unbroken.
Q 17Besides Mjölnir, which two items complete Thor's kit?
A belt of strength and iron gloves
The belt Megingjörð doubles his strength and the gloves Járngreipr let him grip the hammer's short handle.
Q 18Thor's wife Sif is famous for what physical feature?
Golden hair
Loki cut it off as a prank and had dwarves forge a replacement of real gold, the same commission that produced Mjölnir.
Q 19After killing the world serpent at Ragnarök, how many steps does Thor take before the venom kills him?
Nine
Nine is the sacred number throughout Norse myth: nine worlds, nine nights on the tree, nine mothers of Heimdall.
Q 20In the poem Þrymskviða, how does Thor get his stolen hammer back from the giant Þrymr?
He is disguised as the bride Freyja
Thor eats an entire ox and eight salmon at the wedding feast, and Loki, as bridesmaid, explains that the bride has fasted for eight days from longing.
When she leaves to empty the bowl, the venom hits his face and his writhing causes earthquakes.
Q 24What is the only thing that did not swear an oath to Frigg never to harm Baldr?
Mistletoe
It was thought too young and harmless to bother with, which is exactly the loophole Loki exploited.
Q 25Which blind god was tricked into killing his brother Baldr?
Höðr
He and Baldr are reconciled after Ragnarök and rule the renewed world together.
Q 26Hel agreed to release Baldr if every thing in the world wept for him. Who refused?
A giantess named Þökk, probably Loki in disguise
Baldr had been burned on his ship Hringhorni, the largest of all ships, with his wife Nanna, who died of grief.
Q 27Gleipnir, the fetter binding Fenrir, was made from six impossible things, including which of these?
The sound of a cat's footfall
The others were the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish and the spittle of a bird, which is why none of them exist anymore.
Q 28Which god lost his right hand in Fenrir's jaws when the wolf realised he had been tricked?
Týr
He had placed it in the wolf's mouth as a pledge that the ribbon-like fetter was harmless.
Q 29Fenrir's two sons, Sköll and Hati, are destined to devour what?
The sun and the moon
They chase the two across the sky every day, and at Ragnarök they finally catch them.
Q 30Freyja rides a chariot pulled by which animals?
Two cats
She also has a boar named Hildisvíni and a cloak of falcon feathers that lets the wearer fly.