Lok (Loki)

Lok

Loki and Sigyn (1863) by Mårten Eskil Winge

Lok, Scandinavia’s devil,
For evermore is dead:
Knowledge is the champion
Beneath whose spear he bled;
And each vile thing of days of yore 5
Shall rot and welter in Lok’s gore.

George Markham Tweddell
[Tweddell’s Middlesbrough Miscellany, p. 60. Yorkshire
Poets past and present Vol. II, No. 5, ed. Dr Forshaw
(Bradford 1889), p. 69]

"In Norse mythology, Loki, Loptr, or Hveðrungr is a god or jötunn (or both). Loki is the son of Fárbauti and

Laufey, and the brother of Helblindi and Býleistr. By the jötunn Angrboða, Loki is the father of Hel, the wolf Fenrir, and the world serpent Jörmungandr. By his wife Sigyn, Loki is the father of Narfi and/or Nari. And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother—giving birth in the form of a mare—to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir. In addition, Loki is referred to as the father of Váli in the Prose Edda." More here on Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki